why .net is famous now a days??

When Microsoft announced its plans for .NET, it surprised many developers, especially
Visual Basic developers, who saw it as a giant step backward for “Rapid Application
Development.” But the release of the .NET Framework version 1.0 in 2002
did bring many needed benefits:
.NET introduced a unified programming environment
All .NET-enabled languages compile to “Microsoft Intermediate Language”
before being assembled into platform-specific machine code. Visual Basic, C#,
and other .NET languages are wrappers around this common .NET “language.”
Since all .NET-enabled compilers speak the same underlying language, they no
longer suffer from the many data and language conflicts inherent in other crosslanguage
component-based systems such as COM. The .NET version of Visual
Studio also unified the standard user interface that lets programmers craft source
code.
.NET committed developers to object-oriented technologies
Not only does .NET fully embrace the object-oriented programming paradigm,
but everything in .NET is contained in an object: all data values, all source code
blocks, and the plumbing for all user-initiated events. Everything appears in thecontext of an object.
.NET simplified Windows programming
Programming in Visual Basic before .NET was easy enough, until it came time to
interact with one of the API libraries, something that happened a lot in professional
programming. With .NET, most of the regularly used APIs are replaced
with a hierarchy of objects providing access to many commonly needed Windows
features. Since the hierarchy is extensible, other vendors can add new functionality
without disrupting the existing framework.
.NET enhanced security
Users and administrators can now establish security rules for different .NET features,
to limit malicious programs from doing their damage. .NET’s “managed”
environment also resolves buffer overrun issues and memory leaks through features
such as strong data typing and garbage collection.
.NET enhanced developer productivity through standards
The .NET Framework is built upon and uses many new and existing standards,
such as XML and SOAP. This enhances data interchange not only on the Windows
platform, but also in interactions with other platforms and systems.
.NET enhanced web-based development
Until .NET, a lot of web-based development was done using scripting languages.
.NET brings the power of compiled, desktop development to the Internet.
.NET simplified the deployment of applications
If .NET is installed on a system, releasing a program can be as simple as copying
its EXE file to the target system (although an install program is much more userfriendly).
Features such as side-by-side deployment, ClickOnce deployment, and
an end to file version conflicts and “DLL hell” (the presence of multiple versions
of the same DLL on a system, or the inability to remove a version of a DLL)
make desktop and web-based deployments a snap.