What is .NET Framework? Ans. .NET Framework is a complete environment that allows developers to develop, run, and deploy the following applications: * Console applications * Windows Forms applications * Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications * Web applications (ASP.NET applications) * Web services * Windows services * Service-oriented applications using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) * Workflow-enabled applications using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) .NET Framework also enables a developer to create sharable components to be used in distributed computing architecture. NET Framework supports the object-oriented programming model for multiple languages, such as Visual Basic, Visual C#, and Visual C . .NET Framework supports multiple programming languages in a manner that allows language interoperability. This implies that each language can use the code written in some other language.