The .NET Framework 3.5, which was released in 2007, introduced the concept of Extension Methods. Extension methods allow us to add new methods to an existing class, without having to make any changes to the class or having to inherit from the class. Extension methods allowed Microsoft developers to add a lot more functionality to […]

The .NET Framework organizes classes (types) in two different levels: namespaces and assemblies. We’ll take a look at the differences between both of them in this post.

In the previous post we looked at the data types available in Java. In this post I want to talk about the data types that .NET offers.

In the last post you read about and used the Java Development Kit. Now is the turn of .NET’s Software Development Kit (SDK). In this post, we’ll look at where the .NET SDK can be found and how we can use it to build an application with just a text editor and a command prompt.

Now that you are more familiar with Java, let me introduce you to .NET. If you have programmed for Windows, you must have heard of the .NET Framework already. In this post, I’ll give an explanation of what .NET is and what can be created with .NET.