Learning about .NET and C#

.NET is an open source platform free for any developer to use to build different types of applications. Let’s define some of the important and relevant terms within this summary. You are familiar with the term cross-platform already, but what this means for .NET is that you can create applications for different devices and operating systems. Open source software is built in public and shared with the public, meaning that anyone can access it and use it for free. You have also seen the term platform a few times in this chapter, and it can have various meanings, where a software engineer’s definition of the term will expand as they become more experienced. Here, it generally refers to where software and its tools can be used and found. A developer platform is a combination of software and tools that a software engineer or developer can use in their development environment, which is specialized software that is installed on a computer to create...