The. NET Framework Developer Pack installs the multi-targeting pack for. NET Framework. Developers can build applications targeting the. NET Framework using either Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2012 or third party IDEs. You need to download the web installer instead of this package if you intend to redistribute. NET Framework.
Microsoft started development on the. NET Framework in the late 1990s originally under the name of Next Generation Windows Services ( NGWS). By late 2000 the first beta versions of. NET 1.0 were released.[1] The first version of. NET Framework was released on 13 February 2002, bringing managed code to Windows NT 4.0, 98, 2000, ME and XP. Since the first version, Microsoft has released nine more upgrades for. NET Framework, seven of which have been released along a new version of Visual Studio. Two of these upgrades. NET Framework 2.0 and 4.0, have upgraded Common Language Runtime ( CLR). New versions of. NET Framework replace older versions when the CLR version is the same. The. NET Framework family also includes two versions for mobile or Embedded device use. A reduced version of the framework, the. NET Compact Framework, is available on Windows CE platforms, including Windows Mobile devices such as smartphones. Additionally, the. NET Micro Framework is targeted at severely resource-constrained devices. Contents 1 Overview 2. NET Framework 1.0 3. NET Framework 1.1 4. NET Framework 2.0 5. NET Framework 3.0 6. NET Framework 3.5 6.1 Service Pack 1. NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Client Profile 7. NET Framework 4 7.1 History 7.2 Windows Server App Fabric 8. NET Framework 4.5 8.1. NET for Metro style-apps 8.2 Core Features 8.3 Managed Extensibility Framework ( MEF) 8.4 ASP. NET 8.5 Networking 8.6. NET Framework 8.7. NET Framework 9. NET Framework 4.6 9.1. NET Framework 10 References Overview Edit Overview of. NET Framework release history[2][3] Version number CLR version Release date Development tool Included in Replaces Windows Windows Server 1.0 1.0 Visual Studio. NET[4] XP[a] N/ A N/ A 1.1 1.1 Visual Studio. NET 2003[4] N/ A 2003 1.0[5] 2.0 2.0 Visual Studio 2005[6] N/ A 2003, 2003 R2,[7] 2008 SP2, 2008 R2 SP1 N/ A 3.0 2.0.
The Windows SDK provides tools, compilers, headers, libraries, code samples, and a new help system that developers can use to create applications that run on Microsoft Windows.
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