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[veluhariharan]

What exactly are these terms?

Windows .Net framework 3.0

Windows SDK

MSDN



What is the difference between the three and which is used for application development like Java? Does one overlap over the other? Where does Visual Studio fit in this? How to go about coding using windows SDK.. becos the IDE for .net is VS 2005?

What is the commercial applicability of the above? where and how are they used?.. plz dont curse me if you had to ans too many ques..!!

 

[bsobel]

.NET framework 3.0 is the windows common runtime for the managed languages (managed c++, c#, vb, etc).

The Windows SDK usually refers to the native (C style) Windows API and is the software development kit for Windows.

MSDN is the Microsoft Developer Network, a content subscription giving you access to all of the development tools including VS 2005.

VS2003+ is the VS for .NET (depending on version). .NET 3.5 will ship with VS2008.

Bill