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Microsoft .NET

Microsoft .NET is an application development, deployment, and runtime platform for a wide variety of applications. Microsoft .NET consists of the .NET Framework, development tools, client, and server systems. The .NET Framework is used to develop and execute applications. Tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio provide a sophisticated IDE to allow developers to build applications quickly. The client systems provide the distributed user interface while the server systems provide a scalable, back-office computing resource.