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The Microsoft .NET
framework provides a lot of features. Microsoft has designed the features of
the .NET framework by using the technologies that are required by software
developers to develop applications for modern as well as future business needs.
The key features of .NET are:

1. Common Executive Environment:-

All .NET applications
run under a common execution environment, called the Common Language Runtime.
The CLR facilitates the interoperability between different .NET languages such
as C#, Visual Basic, Visual C++, etc. by providing a common environment for the
execution of code written in any of these languages.

2. Common Type System:-

The common type system
CTS defines a set of types and rules that are common to all languages targeted
at the CLR. It supports both value and reference types. Value types are created
in the stack and include all primitive types, structs, and enums. In contrast,
reference types are created in the managed heap and include objects, arrays,
collections, etc.

3. Multi-language support:-

All languages deal
with all data types in the same way. There is also a mechanism for defining and
managing new types.

4. tool Support:-

The CLR works
hand-in-hand with tools like visual studio, compilers, debuggers, and profilers
to make the developer's job much simpler.

5. Security:-

The CLR manages system
security through user and code identity coupled with permission checks. The
identity of the code can be known and permission for the use of resources
granted accordingly. This type of security is a major feature of .NET. The .NET
framework also provides support for role-based security using windows NT
accounts and groups.

6. Automatic Resource Management:-

The .NET CLR provides
efficient and automatic resource management such as memory, screen space,
network connections, database, etc. CLR invokes various built-in functions of
.NET framework to allocate and de-allocate the memory of .NET objects.

7. Easy and rich debugging support:-

The .NET IDE
(integrated development environment) provides an easy and rich debugging
support. Once an exception occurs at run time, the program stops and the IDE
marks the line which contains the error along with the details of that error
and possible solutions. The runtime also provides built-in stack walking
facilities making it much easier to locate bugs and error.

8. Simplified development:-

With .NET installing
or uninstalling, a window-based application is a matter of copying or deleting
files. This possible because .NET components are not referenced in the
registry.

9. Framework class library:-

The framework class
library (FCL) of the .NET framework contains a rich collection of classes that
are available for developers to use these classes in code Microsoft has
developed these classes to fulfill various tasks of applications, such as
working with files and other data storages, performing input-output operations,
web services, data access, and drawing graphics.

10. Portability:-

The application
developed in the .NET environment is portable. When the source code of a
program written in a CLR compliant language complies, it generates a
machine-independent and intermediate code. This was originally called the
Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) and has now been renamed as the common
Intermediate Language (CIL). CIL is the key to portability in .NET.