what is .net?

• it is a platform netural framework.
• it is a layer between the operating system and the programming language.
• it supports many programming languages including c#,vb.net etc.
• .net provides a common set of class libraries,which can be accessed from any .net based programming language.
• in future versions of windows,.net will be freely distributed as part of operating system and users never have to install the .net separately.