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Welcome to the first chapter of the first section of this book. Over the course of this section we'll betaking a look at the basic knowledge required to get up and running. In this first chapter we'll belooking at an overview of C# and the .NET Framework, and we'll consider what these technologies are,the motivation behind using them, and how they relate to each other. We'll start with a general discussion of the .NET Framework. This is a new technology, and containsmany concepts that are tricky to get to grips with at first (mainly because the Framework introduces a"new way of doing things" to application development). This means that the discussion will, bynecessity, cover many new concepts in a short space of time. However, a quick look at the basics isessential to understand how to program in C#, so this is a necessary evil. Later on in the book we'llrevisit many of the topics covered here in more detail. After this discussion, we'll move on to a simple description of C# itself, including its origins andsimilarities to C++. Finally, we'll look at the main tool that will be used throughout this book: Visual Studio .NET (VS).