Each .NET version is released with some significant improvements: .NET 1.0 – 2002 Initial version (1st release)
.NET 1.1 – 2003 Update on 1.0, added provider for Oracle
.NET 2.0 – 2005 Generics were introduced.
.NET 3.0 – 2007 WPF, WCF, WF were introduced
.NET3.5 – 2008 LINQ and ADO .NET Entity Framework
.NET 4.0 – 2010 Dynamic support for languages (dynamic keyword introduced)
.NET 4.5 – 2012 Asynchronous programming support (async and await keyword introduced).
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