.net federation     

A Federation of Software Companies

.net Federation is a group of software houses committed to the development of .NET Web Services and Smart Client Applications.

.NET is a new software technology created by Microsoft available in different flavours for every Operating System, licensed either with normal commercial licenses or Open Source licenses.

We felt the need of a common repository of knowledge, best practices and tools for enhancing and promote end user adoption of the .NET environment.

This site is the result of such an effort.

We are in no way affiliated of supported by Microsoft Corporation. We endorse .NET as a technology and not as a brand.

Get the .NET Framework now

To get Microsoft .NET Framework just open Microsoft Update service and look for

and you are ready to start. Also, you may have a look at the MSDN .NET Framework Developer Center.

Mono is the Open Source platform based on .NET. It is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS

There is another Open Source effort for .NET which is the DotGNU project, available for Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS