________________________________ Before we start discussing about .NET, let's try to understand "What" & "WHY" about .NET? So, What is .NET ? It's a cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of application. You can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build for web, mobile, desktop, gaming and IoT using .NET. Now, Why .NET? Despite many popular programming languages like Java, C, C++, Python etc and cross platform technology available. Why Microsoft developed and promote another framework i.e .NET? The reason is, "Market Share & Business strategy". Yes, .NET is possible recreation of Java because Microsoft just couldn't afford losing all its VB developers to Java, so they created .NET. Moreover, Java is a language, while .NET is a framework and it's aimed at writing business applications. Though you can do just about anything with it Ø History & Ori