What year was the .NET programming environment released?

[Brian]

I have been going through resumes lately and have noticed many people claiming that they have been developing in the .NET environment for 3+ years. I'm new to the .NET programming environment, but it doesn't seem that it's been around much longer than 3 years. Can someone tell me when the .NET programming environment was released (what's the longest a person could actually claim that they have been programming in the .NET environment?)?

Thank you!

-Brian

[Phil Wilson]

Developmentor were doing classes exactly 3 years ago, based on the Betas, so
yes, some folks have been doing it for about 3 and half years if they used
the early Betas. VS wasn't great, but command line csc was fine.
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Phil Wilson
[MVP Windows Installer]
"Brian" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I have been going through resumes lately and have noticed many people claiming that they have been developing in the .NET environment for 3+
years. I'm new to the .NET programming environment, but it doesn't seem
that it's been around much longer than 3 years. Can someone tell me when
the .NET programming environment was released (what's the longest a person
could actually claim that they have been programming in the .NET
environment?)?
Thank you!

-Brian

[Thomas Tomiczek [MVP]]

THere are a handfull of people out there that have up to and sometimes more
than 5 years commercial .NET experience.

The question is not, in this case, when it was released, but when you got
into the (sometimes non-public) beta program and when you started doing real
work with it.

I remember doing a prototype for an intranet site in C# before the public
knew that "C#" was a new programming language from Microsoft.

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Regards

Thomas Tomiczek
THONA Software & Consulting Ltd.
(Microsoft MVP C#/.NET)
(CTO PowerNodes Ltd.)
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"Brian" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I have been going through resumes lately and have noticed many people claiming that they have been developing in the .NET environment for 3+
years. I'm new to the .NET programming environment, but it doesn't seem
that it's been around much longer than 3 years. Can someone tell me when
the .NET programming environment was released (what's the longest a person
could actually claim that they have been programming in the .NET
environment?)?
Thank you!

-Brian