Central NY Dot Net Users Group

The CNYDNUG meets every other month at 602 Factory Avenue in Syracuse, NY.  This meeting is held directly following the CNYPCUG MS Access SIG

We share demo's and discuss issues related to Dot Net development, we primarily focus on Visual Basic .Net.

What is Dot Net?

If you are unfamiliar with the terminology Dot Net (or .Net) is a Microsoft Software development initiative - a 'New Generation' of tools. Dot Net crosses development languages (APL, COBOL, C# (pronounced C-sharp), C++, Java, J#, Visual Basic, ... and more are being added as you read this. Dot Net is also cross platform - it will run on PDA's, Unix, Linix ... again more are being added as you are reading this.

In order to accomplish this, Dot Net performs two transformations:

  1. All programming languages are converted to a pseudo assembler code called CLR (Common Runtime Language).
  2. All platforms (Windows, Linix, Unix, ...etc.) need a run time engine that interprets CLR.

BUT WAIT--- THERE'S MORE!!!!!

For any of you who have created web pages using ASP, you know how hard it can be to work with the jumble of Visual Basic code and page formatting commands. With Dot Net, the new ASPX pages can split formatting from code. Debugging also becomes easier with new tracing capabilities.

Because these Web pages are partially complied, they can run faster than Java pages.

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