The History of .NET

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A tight timeline showing how a language runtime, a new language and web tooling coalesce into .NET: the common language runtime + C# + ASP.NET debut at PDC 2000, Microsoft ships Visual Studio iterations, claims “22 languages” on one platform, and enterprise Windows dominance (XP ~95%) shapes priorities. Key experiments: Mono proves cross‑platform C#, Silverlight runs on desktop but Silverlight fails on iOS (blunting its reach), and later moves—Roslyn, .NET Core, VS Code, Azure—make .NET truly open source and cross‑platform.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:20WARS
3. 7:43Master Of the Universe
4. 15:51Windows 2000 Professional
5. 24:34Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
6. 28:36Windows Vista
7. 32:25Silverlight
8. 36:34Windows 7
9. 42:432011 //build/ windows
10. 47:54Microsoft Azure
11. 49:05Visual Studio
12. 50:02What's Next?

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