Saturday, 24 August 2013

DotNet History and Features

This post is to provide a basic understanding about dot net history. I do not want to explain the things more and more because everything you can find in detail using google search, main intention is to give quick introduction about dot net with key terminology to provide you sound knowledge with limited words.

Overview of .NET Framework release history
Generation Version number Release date Development tool Distributed with
1.0 1.0.3705.0 2002-02-13 Visual Studio .NET N/A
1.1 1.1.4322.573 2003-04-24 Visual Studio .NET 2003 Windows Server 2003
2.0 2.0.50727.42 2005-11-07 Visual Studio 2005 Windows Server 2003 R2
3.0 3.0.4506.30 2006-11-06 Expression Blend Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008
3.5 3.5.21022.8 2007-11-19 Visual Studio 2008 Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2
4.0 4.0.30319.1 2010-04-12 Visual Studio 2010 N/A
4.5 4.5.50709.17929 2012-08-15 Visual Studio 2012 Windows 8, Windows Server 2012

.NET Features

.NET Framework 1.1 - CLR, Basic Framework, Webservice and ASP.NET
.NET Framework 2.0 - ADO.NET , Globalization, Generic and Partial Class
.NET Framework 3.0 - WPF(Avalon), WCF(Indigo), WWF and cardspace
.NET Framework 3.5 - LINQ, AJAX, Rest Service, new ws* specification
.NET Framework 4.0 - In-Process Side-by-Side Execution, DLR, Portable Class Library, Paraller computing
.NET Framework 4.5 -  Zip compression improvement, task-based model for performing asynchronous operations, Better performance when retrieving resources

References :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework_version_history
.NET Framework 4.0 Features
.NET Framework 4.5 features





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