The .NET technologies were developed by Microsoft at the end of the year 2000. One of the purposes was to streamline the process from writing the source codes with different programming languages to one common language codes that can be executable on any Windows operating system guarantee as long as the required version .NET is installed. This Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code stored in the form of DLL could be dynamically compiled into machine code by .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) when the user interacts with the application. This compiled technology is also known as just-in-time compilation (JIT) which has dominated the software development landscape for many years.
Around the year 2008, the sales of PC began to decline at a rapid pace, and it shocks the .NET development community as well since developers were having a hard time to compensate the rapid changes of the environment and the needs of building mobile applications as the number of different types of mobile devices begin to soar.
The need for letting the .NET developers to develop software cross-platform within the Windows environments and be able to create applications runnable not just in Windows operating system, but also in Android, Linux, and Apple system, becomes a priority for Microsoft as they try to revamp the .NET technologies from the ground up. In November of 2014, Microsoft announced modular-designed .NET Core and its CoreCLR implementation as a way to address the cross-platform issues. But not until recently, the release of Windows 10 marks the new era of new operating system and software development since Windows 10 adopt the new .NET technologies.
Around the year 2008, the sales of PC began to decline at a rapid pace, and it shocks the .NET development community as well since developers were having a hard time to compensate the rapid changes of the environment and the needs of building mobile applications as the number of different types of mobile devices begin to soar.
The need for letting the .NET developers to develop software cross-platform within the Windows environments and be able to create applications runnable not just in Windows operating system, but also in Android, Linux, and Apple system, becomes a priority for Microsoft as they try to revamp the .NET technologies from the ground up. In November of 2014, Microsoft announced modular-designed .NET Core and its CoreCLR implementation as a way to address the cross-platform issues. But not until recently, the release of Windows 10 marks the new era of new operating system and software development since Windows 10 adopt the new .NET technologies.
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