What is Microsoft .NET?
Briefly, Microsoft .NET supports the following features:

As described by Microsoft, .NET is a robust platform for developing the next generation of applications.

It is built using industry standards, such as XML and SOAP.

The .NET platform supports many languages, including:

Visual Basic .NET

Visual C# .NET

The .NET API, including data type support, is the same for all languages.

.NET provides a single development environment, Visual Studio
® .NET, to work with all its supported languages.

.NET supports all of the SOAP formats that are supported by OpenEdge Web services.