what is the logic behind dot just before net in .net

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what is the logic behind dot which is useed before net
like we say .net so what is mean of dot(.) here??

Posted 12-Dec-13 0:31am

Omprakash Kukana

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Joezer BH 12-Dec-13 7:45am

Microsoft started development of .NET Framework in the late 1990s, originally under the name of Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework_version_history

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Solution 1

It's the name, that's all.
First came ASP.NET[^], which was the sucessor to Microsoft's ASP (Active Server Pages) and included version one of the framework: so it was dubbed "ASP.NET" to indicate it's decent from ASP and it's internet intentions. The Framework was also available as .NET for Windows applications and grew from there.

Posted 12-Dec-13 0:55am

OriginalGriff

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[no name] 12-Dec-13 7:01am

Is not it also a little inspired by ".com" to emphasize the affinity to internet?

OriginalGriff 12-Dec-13 7:06am

Probably not - .COM would have had negative connotations with developers of the time, since they would nearly all remember that .COM files were very simple, basic .EXE files, and that COM itself already existed as Component Object Model

Solution 3

Hi Omprakash,

.NET enabled Microsoft's marketing people to emphasise the "Network"-ing aspect of its technologies, and was also a reaction to the marketing blitz by Sun Microsystems in the late 1990s whose theme was "The network is the computer". The term "Dot-Com" was synonymous with the Internet that time, and "Dot-NET" was a play on that term.

Hope this helps you a bit.

Regards,
RK

Posted 12-Dec-13 1:14am

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JoCodes · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-12T00:58:00

Solution 2

It denotes the "dotcom" era meant internet based technology which used the networking methodologies. It was part of Microsoft strategies to use it as a buzzword which was intended for easier marketing too as all their networking related technologies under one .net group.

Posted 12-Dec-13 0:58am

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