Re: .NET Framework - how 'important?'

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On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 18:17:10 -0700, Timothy Daniels wrote:

"Blithe" wrote:
However - it occurs to me that I never got a firm idea
just how important .Net Framework is to the average
user like myself....

.NET Framework is the runtime engine and environment
for apps that have been developed with the .NET libraries
and the .NET languages. It provides the virtual machine on
which the compiled .NET languages run and it provides the
support environment. It sits on top of Windows, and it uses
the services of Windows, but it provides its own value-added
services that the .NET-based apps need to run. The advantage
to the developer is that it allows a shorter development time by
taking over of the tedium of re-inventing various coding "wheels"
and by removing some of the common sources of bugs (e.g.
memory "leaks" due to non-release of memory resources). It
also allows the developer to use a language that he/she may be
most familiar with, e.g. COBOL.NET, Fortran.NET, etc., and
not only C# (Microsoft's answer to Java). As an environment,
.NET Framework shouldn't be uninstalled just because one app
that used it was uninstalled. If that does indeed sometimes happen,
it would be due to an error by the writer of the installation package.
Consider the runtime engine for Java. Would you uninstall it or
expect it to be uninstalled just because the app for which it was
installed was uninstalled? What about other apps, either currently
installed or to be installed in the future? It's a necessary environment
for an increasing number of apps, much like an operating system
or a browser. Would you uninstall either of those environments
because it was no longer needed by one of your apps? BTW,
I've read that Microsoft is developing a version of .NET Framework
to run on Unix/Linux, and I'd imagine on Solaris. If it succeeds, and
if it does reduce development time better than Java and Java's
various frameworks, Oracle/Sun might have a problem.

*TimDaniels*

Thanks for the above - very informative.

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