Section 1.1. C 2005 and .NET 2.0

1.1. C# 2005 and .NET 2.0

In the past, you might have learned a language like C or Java without much concern about the platform on which you would be programming. These cross-platform languages were as comfortable on a Unix box as they were on a PC running Windows.

C#, however, was created specifically for .NET. Although .NET may become cross-platform some day soonthere already exists a working open -source Unix versionfor now, the overwhelming majority of .NET programs will be written to run on a machine running one of the Windows operating systems.