NET Framework contains tens of thousands of pieces of shared code. Instead of writing that code themselves, and then writing all the little bits and pieces that have to interpret what the ping results mean, they can use code from the library that performs that function.Īnd that’s just one tiny example. Say, for example, a developer needed their application to be able to ping another IP address on the network. The bits of code in the shared library can perform all kinds of different functions. NET Framework, that library of shared code is named the Framework Class Library (FCL). A framework (in programming terms) is really a collection of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and a shared library of code that developers can call when developing applications, so that they don’t have to write the code from scratch.
The name “.NET Framework” itself is a bit of a misnomer.
