.NET Framework
A platform for building, deploying, and running XML Web services and applications. It provides a highly productive, standards-based, multilanguage environment for integrating existing investments with next generation applications and services, as well as the agility to solve the challenges of deployment and operation of Internet-scale applications. The .NET Framework consists of three main parts: the common language runtime, a hierarchical set of unified class libraries, and a componentized version of ASP called ASP.NET
.NET Framework is a software development framework for building and running applications on Windows. .NET Framework is part of the .NET platform, a collection of technologies for building apps for Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and more.
⠀ Microsoft Computer Dictionary.--5th ed Edition Microsoft Press 2002 – 648 c. – 370 .NET Framework Retrived from https://dotnet.microsoft.com