C#.NET

C# (pronounced C Sharp) is a multi paradigm programming language that encompasses functional, imperative, generic, object oriented and component oriented programming disciplines. It was developed by Microsoft as part of the .Net initiative and later approved as a standard by ECMA(ECMA-334) and ISO (ISO/IEC 23270).

C# is intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language. It has an object-oriented syntax based on c++ and is heavily influenced by Java. It was initially named Cool, which stood for "C-like Object Oriented Language." However, in July 2000, when Microsoft made the project public, the name of the programming language was given as C#. The most recent version of the language is 3.0 which was released in conjunction with the .Net Framework  3.5 in 2007.

C# is intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language. Because software robustness, durability and programmer productivity are important, the language should include strong type checking, array bounds  checking, detection of attempts to use uninitialized variables, source code and automatic garbage collection. The language is intended for use in developing software components that can take advantage of distributed environments. Programmer portability is very important, especially for those programmers already familiar with C and C++. C# is intended to be suitable for writing applications for both hosted and embedded systems, ranging from the very large that use sophisticated operating systems, down to the very small having dedicated functions. Although C# applications are intended to be economical with regard to memory and processing power requirements, the language is not intended to compete directly on performance and size with C.