16 Facts About NET Framework

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NET Framework is a proprietary software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows.

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NET Framework execute in a software environment named the Common Language Runtime (CLR).

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NET Framework began as proprietary software, although the firm worked to standardize the software stack almost immediately, even before its first release.

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4.

NET Framework not covered by ECMA-ISO standards, which included Windows Forms, ADO.

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NET Framework provided support for other Microsoft platforms such as Windows Mobile, Windows CE and other resource-constrained embedded devices.

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NET Framework and offers many services such as memory management, type safety, exception handling, garbage collection, security and thread management.

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7.

NET Framework are compiled into Common Intermediate Language code, as opposed to being directly compiled into machine code.

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8.

NET Framework includes an implementation of the CLI foundational Standard Libraries.

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9.

NET Framework, Language Integrated Query, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Workflow Foundation (WF).

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10.

NET Framework platforms are encouraged to implement a version of the standard library allowing them to re-use extant third-party libraries to run without new versions of them.

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11.

NET Framework provides means to access functions implemented in newer and older programs that execute outside.

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12.

NET Framework has its own security mechanism with two general features: Code Access Security, and validation and verification.

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NET Framework types are allocated from the managed heap; a pool of memory managed by CLR.

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NET Framework includes a garbage collector which runs periodically, on a separate thread from the application's thread, that enumerates all the unusable objects and reclaims the memory allocated to them.

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15.

NET Framework application has a set of roots, which are pointers to objects on the managed heap.

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16.

NET Framework provides support for calling Streaming SIMD Extensions via managed code from April 2014 in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2.

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