Before looking at the steps necessary to build the preceding application, I should cover what the term .NET means and what it offers to a software developer. .NET is an infrastructure that provides two major benefits: productivity and security. Using .NET, a developer can write code for many modern problem domains faster, and during coding, the developer faces fewer pitfalls that could end up in security vulnerabilities. Furthermore, .NET code can be implemented so that it can be executed with restricted access to APIs. All these benefits are achieved by two components: a runtime and a class library
