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.NET Tutorial for Beginners

Special thanks to the following who have put in sincere efforts to write and bring this tutorial together.

Akila Manian (MVP) | Ajay Varghese (MVP) | Amit Kukreja | Anand M (MVP) | Aravind Corera (MVP) | Arvind Rangan | Balachandran | Bipin Joshi (MVP) | C S Rajagopalan | G Gokulraj | G Arun Prakash | Gurneet Singh (MVP) | KunalCheda (MVP) | Manish Mehta (MVP) | Narayana Rao Surapaneni (MVP) | Pradeep | Saurabh Nandu (MVP) | Shankar N.S. | Swati Panhale | Reshmi Nair

Content
1. Getting Ready .......................................................................................... 4 1.1 Tracing the .NET History..............................................................................4 1.2 Flavors of.NET...........................................................................................5 1.3 Features of .NET....................................................................................... 10 1.4 Installing the .NET Framework SDK............................................................. 12 2. Introduction to the .NET Initiative and the .NET Platform ...................... 15 2.1 Understandingthe Existing Development Scenario........................................ 15 2.2 Challenges faced by developers.................................................................. 18 2.3 NET Philosophy / Where does .NET fit in? .................................................... 21 2.4 Understanding the .NET Platform and its layers ............................................ 25 2.5 Understandingthe various components of the .NET Platform and the functions performed by them ........................................................................................ 30 2.6 Structure of a .NET Application................................................................... 37 3. Code Management.................................................................................. 43 3.1Introduction............................................................................................. 43 3.2 First VB.NET / C# program ........................................................................ 45 3.3 JIT (Just–in-Time Compiler) & Debugging .................................................... 51 3.4 Managed Vs. Unmanaged Methods/Transitions ............................................. 56 3.5Summary ................................................................................................ 61 4. Language Features of C# ....................................................................... 62 4.1 History of C# ........................................................................................... 62 4.2 Language Fundamentals in C#................................................................... 63 4.3 Control Statements................................................................................... 74 4.4 Arrays ..................................................................................................... 83 5. Language Features of VB.NET ................................................................ 88 5.1 History of VB.NET..................................................................................... 88 5.2 Language Fundamentals in VB.NET ............................................................. 89 5.3 Features of VB.NET ................................................................................... 99 5.4 Control Statements................................................................................. 107 5.5 Arrays................................................................................................... 115 6. Object Oriented Programming Concepts .............................................. 122 6.1 Concept of Procedural Programming.......................................................... 123 6.2 Object Oriented Programming .................................................................. 126 6.3...