What Is Dot Net? Image via Wikipedia .NET, is a software framework primarily for XML web services created and disseminated by Microsoft. In other words, .NET is a software platform through which programmers can develop programs that cause users to interact with one another’s systems rather than the program itself. For example, Windows Live Messenger is a .NET program that allows users to open the application and connect directly to other users. This is as opposed to traditional programs like Microsoft Outlook, which will take input from one user and deliver it to another. Therefore, while most programs act as intermediaries, .NET programs act as direct lines to other users that control only the way users interact rather than the interaction itself. .NET comes complete with a library of coded solutions to common issues that arise and a virtual machine to execute programs created using the framework. Programmers use the framework’s Base Class Library, which includes a u
