India Community Initiative

.NET Tutorial for Beginners

Special thanks to the following who have put in sincere efforts to write and bring this tutorial together.

Akila Manian (MVP) | Ajay Varghese (MVP) | Amit Kukreja | Anand M (MVP)
| Aravind Corera (MVP) | Arvind Rangan | Balachandran | Bipin Joshi (MVP)
| C S Rajagopalan | G Gokulraj | G Arun Prakash | Gurneet Singh (MVP) |
Kunal Cheda (MVP) | Manish Mehta (MVP) | Narayana Rao Surapaneni
(MVP) | Pradeep | Saurabh Nandu (MVP) | Shankar N.S. | Swati Panhale |
Reshmi Nair

Content
1. Getting Ready .......................................................................................... 4
1.1 Tracing the .NET History..............................................................................4
1.2 Flavors of .NET...........................................................................................5
1.3 Features of .NET....................................................................................... 10
1.4 Installing the .NET Framework SDK............................................................. 12
2. Introduction to the .NET Initiative and the .NET Platform ...................... 15
2.1 Understanding the Existing Development Scenario........................................ 15
2.2 Challenges faced by developers.................................................................. 18
2.3 NET Philosophy / Where does .NET fit in? .................................................... 21
2.4 Understanding the .NET Platform and its layers ............................................ 25
2.5 Understanding the various components of the .NET Platform and the functions performed by them ........................................................................................ 30
2.6 Structure of a .NET Application................................................................... 37
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