Dot Net Framework is a platform for software development launched by Microsoft and used for building and running Windows applications. Despite being an originally Windows-based framework, you can use it for developing iOS and Android apps. It is quite a versatile framework for building websites, desktop and web apps, web portals, and video games. .Net application development is quite convenient since it consists of multiple languages, tools, and libraries making it perfect for broad uses.
Microsoft provides backward support for the older editions of the .Net platform. If you are working with the older edition of the .Net, you can keep on using it because, with every new edition, Microsoft makes sure to provide proper backward support to the older ones. This says a lot about the ease of maintainability of the .Net platform. Astra Infotech can easily update your old version of the .Net for the greater convenience of use.
With the .Net framework, the developers can create an app for mobile devices, PDAs, desktops, and browsers. .Net is considered and marketed as a language-independent platform that is compliant with different coding languages like Python, Ruby, C#, C++, VB.NET, and many more.
.Net is a framework of choice for Web Services, which is one of the best solutions for the Service-Oriented Architecture strategy. The best thing here is that the apps developed using different languages and platforms can all communicate and exchange data with standard Internet protocols.
As said, Microsoft backward supports the older versions of .Net but that’s not all. It allows you to write any format of a file, which opens the doors for a variety of integrations. You can integrate a variety of extensions into your existing solutions.