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The ".NET" label was applied to a bunch of things at Microsoft. It was also an early name given to their social networking / IM things. But for the last 20-is
by paranoidrobot 2y ago
The ".NET" label was applied to a bunch of things at Microsoft.
It was also an early name given to their social networking / IM things.
But for the last 20-ish years it's really only been applied to things related to the .NET Framework.
So, yes - Visual Basic.NET is a language - it's the language that replaced Visual Basic 6. It compiles to the Intermediate Language (IL) that the Common Language Runtime (CLR) executes. There are other languages that compile to IL, too like C#, F#.
The .NET Framework is really a bunch of libraries and tools that are packaged together.
The .NET Standard is a standard that allows you to build a library to a known set of supported libraries and IL / CLR features.
So, yes, depending on which specific part you're referring to - it's all of those.
- pjc50 2y agoThis was probably copying Sun's "we put the dot in .COM" advertising. Yes, this is stupid.
- hermitdev 2y agoMicrosoft needs to stop letting marketing decide product names. Just look at Xbox: Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S.
- Maken 2y agoThe "Xbox Series X" is such a nonsensical name that only a marketing department could come with it. And this entire line of names exists solely because someone thought that nobody would buy a "Xbox 2" instead of a "PlayStation 3".
- tracker1 2y agoBecause X's mean moar marketing power... Like the Extreme X870E X motherboard... There's multiple X's and Extremes and the X's mean extreme... so it's moar extreme!!!