.NET is a programming framework created by Microsoft that developers can use to create applications more easily. As commenter dwroth aptly put it, "a framework is just a bunch of code that the ...

Whether you're a network administrator or an application developer who has been working with Microsoft technologies for a while, you may have experienced the pain of managing development environments ...

Thanks to both of you to responding. A couple of thoughts, I had hoped the problem with the redistributable framework was what was keeping me from installing the SDK (which was my original purpose).