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Seven Things about C#

A beginners tutorial, where each article highlights 7 important things about a specific feature of the C# programming language.

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7 Things about C#: The Platform

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C# runs on .NET, a cross-platform, managed, and open-source environment. The following 7 features give you an overview of this platform and explains a few of it’s more notable features. When completed, you’ll have a better understanding of .NET, its benefits, and how C# fits in.

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The C# Platform

1 — Is a general-purpose language

As a general purpose language, C# is a multi-use tool that you can use on a wide variety of applications. I’ve personally used it to build apps for the cloud, desktop, mobile, server, and web. In more recent scenarios, people use C# for AI in the areas of chatbots, neural nets, machine learning, and natural language processing. As WebAssembly has upset JavaScript’s predominance of the browser, you can now write browser-based applications with C# via a new .NET technology known as Blazor. You can also build HTTP APIs for any developer from any other language and platform to use.

Hub and spoke diagram with C# in the center, emanating to technologies that you can build, such as cloud, desktop, mobile, web, and more.
C# can be used to build many different types of applications.

Speaking about other languages, the next section discusses .NET’s multi-language support.

2 — One of many .NET languages

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Seven Things about C#
Seven Things about C#

Published in Seven Things about C#

A beginners tutorial, where each article highlights 7 important things about a specific feature of the C# programming language.

Joe Mayo
Joe Mayo

Written by Joe Mayo

Author, Instructor, & Independent Consultant. Author of C# Cookbook: — http://bit.ly/CSharpCookbook — @OReillyMedia #ai #csharp #Web3

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