I’m Still Here

I’ve been really busy with work, a computer crash and sleep. In a couple days it will be done at least for a while.

A friend asked me to explain ”.NET”. At first I wasn’t sure how but after some thought this is what I came up with:

Before .NET

There was a technology for everything: VBscript for the web, VBA for writing applications. Each specific operation had its own separate technology usually based off another greater technology such as VBscript was/is a subscript of Visual Basic 6.

After .NET

Microsoft looked at these technologies and saw their commonalities and combined them, then added what was lacking into one “Framework” or the ”.NET framework”. Now there is one language called Visual Basic.NET that can be used to write web applications or Windows applications or both. Before this task would have involved using VBscript for the web and VBA for the application which would have caused a lot of redundancy in the code.

Please note this is a simplistic explanation of the .NET technologies, there have been books written on the subject.