.NET Framework - Whats it do?

[S!X]

anyone? :blink:

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The Microsoft .NET Framework is an environment for building, deploying, and running XML Web services and other applications. It consists of three main parts: the common language runtime, the Framework classes, and ASP.NET. A companion infrastructure, the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, is a set of programming interfaces that enable developers to target mobile devices like smart phones and PDAs.

[Vargas]

you know i had to upgrade my .NET crap the other day and now i have a new folder added to %path% C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
and snooping around in there i see some sneakies in the log files =-(

[S!X]

icic, i installed with windows update but really had no idea what it was.

[BawA]

some apps need's .net to run on windows, dont remove it.

[Izagaia]

Yanicsoft's "WinXP Manager" is one of them. Not a clue in hell as to why it requires it though.

[Vargas]

it's like java, dll's and vbrun, some programs use these librarys to run. otherwise they would be huge

[Mr. Blunt]

I don't have .NET installed and I'm doing fine without it.