Introduction to .NET

Beginner
Developer
.NET

Start learning about .NET. Understand what .NET is and how it works, and quickly build a small app in a web-based .NET environment.

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

  • Describe the major parts of .NET and its ecosystem.
  • Explain how .NET languages and the .NET compiler, runtime, and libraries work together to produce a running application.
  • Choose when it makes sense to use .NET to build your applications.

Prerequisites

  • You should have already written your first lines of C# code.
  • You should be able to recognize how to use Console.WriteLine() to send text to an output window.
  • You should be able to recognize minor issues in your code and to fix them.