A platform for building, deploying, and running XML Web
services and applications. It provides a highly productive, standards-based,
multilanguage environment for integrating existing investments with next
generation applications and services, as well as the agility to solve the
challenges of deployment and operation of Internet-scale applications. The .NET
Framework consists of three main parts: the common language runtime, a
hierarchical set of unified class libraries, and a componentized version of ASP
called ASP.NET. See
also ASP.NET, common language
runtime, .NET Framework class library.
NET Framework class library
A Common Language Specification (CLS)–compliant library of classes, interfaces, and value types that are included in the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK. This library provides access to system functionality and is designed to be the foundation on which .NET Framework applications, components, and controls are built.
NET Framework class library
A Common Language Specification (CLS)–compliant library of classes, interfaces, and value types that are included in the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK. This library provides access to system functionality and is designed to be the foundation on which .NET Framework applications, components, and controls are built.
.NET Framework data provider :- A component of ADO.NET that provides
access to data from a relational data source. A .NET Framework data provider
contains classes to connect to a data source, execute commands at the data
source, and return query results from the data source, including the ability to
execute commands within transactions. A .NET Framework data provider also
contains classes to populate a DataSet with results from a data source and
propagate changes in a DataSet back to the data source.