Isn't .NET a kinda "binding" technolgy that allows you to use different technologies together? For instance I've heard the term ASP.NET and also PHP.NET
Can anyone give us a simple explanation as to what .NET is?
Andy
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 04:07 — 6th July 2004.
andy206uk wrote: Can anyone give us a simple explanation as to what .NET is?
lol! That's the Holy Grail of Microsoft knowledge -- just what is .NET? Afaik, it's a framework for other technologies like ASP, VB, C# and all that jazz.
And along came .NET. This was a grand project, the super-duper unifying project to clean up the whole mess once and for all. It would have memory management, of course. It would still have Visual Basic, but it would gain a new language, one which is in spirit virtually the same as Visual Basic but with the C-like syntax of curly braces and semicolons. And best of all, the new Visual Basic/C hybrid would be called Visual C#, so you would not have to tell anyone you were a "Basic" programmer any more. All those horrid Windows functions with their tails and hooks and backwards-compatibility bugs and impossible-to-figure-out string-returning semantics would be wiped out, replaced by a single clean object oriented interface that only has one kind of string. One runtime to rule them all. It was beautiful. And they pulled it off, technically. .NET is a great programming environment that manages your memory and has a rich, complete, and consistent interface to the operating system and a rich, super complete, and elegant object library for basic operations.
.NET only big change in functionality compare to old style asp is that you can access the hotmail passport with it so for example you could use it to show who is available for chat on a web page. the rest of .NET is just standard asp but with little change juste to make sure you have to pay for new exams to stay certified. old style asp was ok for oop too and i don't think asp.net change anything related to object
IF , ELSE , WHILE isn't that what life is all about
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Suzanne posted this at 21:04 — 5th July 2004.
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I *believe* that's .NET, not ASP. Good luck!
andy206uk posted this at 22:53 — 5th July 2004.
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Isn't .NET a kinda "binding" technolgy that allows you to use different technologies together? For instance I've heard the term ASP.NET and also PHP.NET
Can anyone give us a simple explanation as to what .NET is?
Andy
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 04:07 — 6th July 2004.
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lol! That's the Holy Grail of Microsoft knowledge -- just what is .NET? Afaik, it's a framework for other technologies like ASP, VB, C# and all that jazz.
Joel Spolsky explains rather succinctly:
andy206uk posted this at 09:31 — 6th July 2004.
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That's still no clearer... is it just a way of allowing different programming languages to interact or something?
myxparadise posted this at 11:49 — 6th July 2004.
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no .NET i mean asp3.0 like vienuke.com. This portal programmed in asp 3.0
druagord posted this at 17:05 — 12th July 2004.
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.NET only big change in functionality compare to old style asp is that you can access the hotmail passport with it so for example you could use it to show who is available for chat on a web page. the rest of .NET is just standard asp but with little change juste to make sure you have to pay for new exams to stay certified. old style asp was ok for oop too and i don't think asp.net change anything related to object
IF , ELSE , WHILE isn't that what life is all about
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