Showing posts with label .net framework. Show all posts
Showing posts with label .net framework. Show all posts
Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Microsoft Cooperation. It can be used to develop various kinds of applications using Microsoft .Net Framework for the platforms supported by Microsoft. Those platforms are Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, and Windows CE. Using VS, we can develop console and graphical user interface (GUI) applications. Console applications are the applications running on windows terminal. And GUI applications are the applications which have rich user interface such as Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications and web services.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio makes the development process easier and faster. It includes a code editor on which developers can write source codes of the applications. It supports intelliSense as well as code refactoring. It has an inbuilt debugger. Using that, developers can debug .Net applications. Visual Studio has other inbuilt tools. It includes a forms designer for building GUI applications, web designer, class designer and database schema designer. So that developers can build rich applications without doing huge amount of coding. We can create plug-ins for the Visual Studio to enhance the functionality of the tool. It supports for source-control systems (like Subversion and Visual SourceSafe) so that many developers can work in a same project.
Here are the most important and useful Visual Studio 2008 features.
• IntelliSense
• Code Snippets
• Revision Marks
• Designer Improvements
• XML Support
• Refactoring
• Partial Classes
• Debugging
• Other IDE Improvements
Because of those features Visual Studio 2008 becomes one of the main Integrated Development Environment for developing .Net applications.
Microsoft .Net framework is one of the world's greatest development framework developed by Microsoft. And this is a software framework for Microsoft Windows operating systems.Using .Net framework, developers can build standalone desktop applications, web applications and mobile applications. It provides lot's of class libraries to work with user interfaces, data access, database connectivity, cryptography, numerical algorithms and network communications.
Microsoft .Net Framework supports for many programming languages therefore developers can use any language to develop their applications as they wish. Those languages are Visual C#, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual J#, etc… Because of that reason Microsoft .Net Framework becomes more and more popular among the software developers. Using Microsoft .Net Framework, developers can build applications very easily and fastly.
Let’s look how the compilation is done within the Microsoft .Net Framework. First developer builds the application using any .Net language like C# and developer compiles that source code using C# compiler to intermediate language (IL). If developer builds the application using VB language, he/she needs VB language compiler to compile source code to intermediate language (IL). After initial compilation, we get a complied source code with intermediate language. It is called .Net assembly. .Net assembly can be either .dll file or .exe file. By looking at the assembly file, we can’t guess the programming language which is used to develop the application because the assembly file is independent from the .Net language. Then the second compilation is done. The Common Language Runtime (CLR) which provides runtime for the .Net applications compiles the assembly file into the machine code. Machine code only contains a stream of 0’s and 1’s. Machine code is the code that the computers can understand because it only contains 0’s and 1’s. Then the machine code is executed by the computer. It means the computer executes the application. And finally user can work with the application.
The following figure demonstrates how the .Net compilation process is done.
.Net Framework Compilation
That is some information about Microsoft .Net Framework and its compilation process. You can read more on it from Wikipedia. You are going to learn C# and now you know why we installed .net Framework to develop C# applications.
This Article will explain how to install Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and If you like you can use the latest version Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
To install Visual Studio 2008, You need the software. But Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is a commercial product. But they provide the free version of it. It is called Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition. You can download the latest version here.
Or you can find any commercial version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. And the following video will demonstrate you how to install it on your computer.
Now you have successfully installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. The development environment is now set.
Then we have to start learning C#. Go through the tutorials and become a C# hero.
Before installing the .Net framework, You have to check whether it is already installed on your computer. If so no need of installing it. Microsoft .Net Framework comes with windows updates and you may already have it.
To Check that
- Run "Add or Remove Programs" in the control panel and see if "Microsoft .NET Framework" is installed.
If you have already install it. Check the version it may be v1.0, v1.1, v2.0, v3.0, v3.5 or latest 4.0. If you have older versions it is better to update it to version 3.5 or 4.0 to gain better features.
And .Net framework is not installed and you have older versions follow the steps below to install it.
- Go to the .Net Framework download web site.
- Scan for updates.
- Select .NET Framework Version 3.5 (or a later version if it exists).
- Download it.
- Execute the Microsoft .NET Framework installer.
- Accept the End User License Agreement (EULA) as follows and click Install.
- Once the installation of .NET Framework is finished, as .NET Framework 3.5 installation suggests, run Windows Updates to get .NET Framework updates.
Now you have installed Microsoft .Net framework successfully.
C# (C Sharp) is a modern and most popular programming language developed by the Microsoft Cooperation. Using C# programming language you can develop most efficient software applications such as
- Standalone Desktop Applications
- Web Applications
- Mobile Applications
And C# is syntactically similar with the programming language called java. If you familiar with java, you can learn C# very easily. But no matter, if you are a beginner, you can also learn the concepts of C# easily and become a good C# developer.
C# is an Object Oriented programming language that is working with Microsoft .Net framework. So if you are a beginner you should know about Microsoft .Net framework and their functionality which will be discussed in the coming tutorials.
Why C#?
Why you should choose C# over other programming languages?, that is because C# is the simplest programming language to learn as a beginner. And it is modern and most of modern popular software applications are written using C#. And It is object oriented so programming is made easy. C# is powerful and flexible language which contains less number of language key words. So as a beginner, It is very efficient to know such kind of programming language like C#.
So let's learn C#. Before learning C# we have to prepare environment for developing C# applications.
Why C#?
So let's learn C#. Before learning C# we have to prepare environment for developing C# applications.
- Install Microsoft .Net Framework
- Install Visual Studio 2008 (That is the development environment used to develop C# applications)
We will describe those things later. Now we setup development environment and go for further details. So first install Microsoft .Net Framework and then Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or 2010 and start learning C#.
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