From the course: .NET Fundamentals: Concepts, APIs, and Libraries in the .NET Framework

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A brief history of .NET Framework

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A brief history of .NET Framework

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- [Instructor] .NET has a long history, more than 20 years have passed since it first appeared. This course looks at the newest version. To be clear, much of what is discussed here in this course is also available in prior releases, and it is a certainty that most of the features now available will be in future .NET versions too. In this video, we'll take a brief look at the history of the releases. Let's begin by examining Microsoft's two diverging programming frameworks. I'm talking about the .NET Framework and .NET Core. First, let's talk about names. The .NET Framework is the original, modernized programming framework first released in 2002. It was a culmination of a massive multi-year initiative to build a software framework. It was originally intended to work on multiple operating systems and support many programming languages. In reality, it became mostly a Windows operating system development framework. But it…

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