Chapter OneIntroduction
Java is an extremely popular, object oriented programming language originally released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. Over the past eight years, its user base (and fan base) has grown steadily due to its simplicity and robustness, and it can be found inside everywhere from professional software development companies to businesses to high school and college classrooms.
With the release of .NET, Microsoft’s new framework for Windows software development, Microsoft has created an opportunity for Java developers to use the language they know, and yet take full advantage of the Microsoft Visual Studio Interactive Development Environment (VS.NET), which we will discuss later in this chapter. For the moment, you can think of Visual Studio .NET as a language neutral development environment that assists you in writing code in any one of a number of languages. Regardless of the language you choose (J# in the case of this book) VS.NET will ultimately compile your code into a universal language called Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL). MSIL is very similar in ...
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