I see, I think.

So one might correctly conclude that all that .NET really is is:
1) the addition of more, and especially more public, facilities to the base OSs;
2) the revision of significant portions of the OSs;
3) the introduction of a few new tools to better exploit the above-mentioned things.

Would that be close? [realizing, of course, that the word 'all' used above is not meant to imply a small amount of work by MS]

>Jim,
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>The .NET Framework is not like a third party commercial VFP framework. Think of it more like the Fox Foundation Classes in VFP. In otherwords, its a group of classes that you use to create an application.
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>>John,
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>>Knowing positively NOTHING about .NET, your last line confuses me a bit... if .NET is itself a "framework", why do you need your own "framework" on top of it? I thought that it's purpose (.NET's) was to expedite development by being the framework.
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>>Thanks in advance
>>Jim
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