Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C#
Microsoft provides the following development tools for C# programming:
- 1- Visual Studio 2016 (VS)
- 2- Visual C# 2016 Express (VCE)
- 3- Visual Web Developer
The last two are free and available from Microsoft official website. Using these tools, you can write all kinds of C# programs from simple to more complex applications.
Visual C# Express and Visual Web Developer Express edition are trimmed down versions of Visual Studio and has the same appearance. They retain most features of Visual Studio.
The .Net Framework
Using this platform helps you to write the following types of applications:
- 1- Windows applications
- 2- Web applications
- 3- Web services
The framework has been designed in such a way that it can be used from any of the following languages: C#, C++, Visual Basic, Jscript, COBOL, etc. All these languages can access the framework as well as communicate with each other.
This Framework contains library of codes used by the client languages such as C#. These are some of the components of .Net framework:
- 1- Common Language Runtime (CLR)
- 2- The .Net Framework Class Library
- 3- Metadata and Assemblies
- 4- Windows Forms
- 5- ASP.Net and ASP.Net AJAX
- 6- ADO.Net