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Hello,

I want to know more about the .NET platform. Things like:

  • Which operating systems does it support?
  • Which programming languages can be used?
  • What combination of OS/Programming Language/IDE is best or recommended?
  • For this OS/Programming Language, what kind of system support to the documentation is available?

I am trying to immerse myself in this world but I need to know a bit more about it before. A little bit of background would help a lot.

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Hello,

I want to know more about the .NET platform. Things like:

  • Which operating systems does it support?
  • Which programming languages can be used?
  • What combination of OS/Programming Language/IDE is best or recommended?
  • For this OS/Programming Language, what kind of system support to the documentation is available?

I am trying to immerse myself in this world but I need to know a bit more about it before. A little bit of background would help a lot.

I know alot of people are anti-wikipedia but hey this is a good starter link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework

Netframe work can go back to 98 OS's as per this article with MS

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8z...28VS.71%29.aspx

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1. The .NET framework as supplied by Microsoft runs on Windows XP, Vista, 7, Server editions and probably more. The .NET Compact Framework runs on mobile devices. There is also an open-source implementation called Mono which runs on Linux, OSX and Windows.

2. The "first-class citizen" languages are C#, Visual Basic, and C++/CLI. F# should become first-class in VS2010 if I'm not mistaken. Lots of other languages are more or less officially supported: CLI implementations of Python, Ruby, etc.

3. Windows XP, Vista or 7, + Visual Studio 2008 is your best .NET development environment.

4. Extensive documentation is provided through msdn. Lots of excellent books to be found about .NET languages and technologies.

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