The following table shows the core technology areas of the .NET Framework

  .NET   Framework   class   library  
  ADO.NET  
  Application   domains  
  ASP.NET  
  Assemblies  
  Asynchronous   programming  
  CodeDom  
  Common   language   runtime  
  Configuration  
  Debugging  
  Deployment  
  Designers  
  Events  
  Exceptions  
  Formatting  
  Garbage   collection  
  GDI+  
  I/O  
  Interoperability  
  Mobile   development  
  Networking  
  Remoting  
  Security  
  Serviced   components  
  Side-by-side   execution  
  Threading  
  Windows   Forms  
  Windows   Management   Instrumentation   (WMI)  
  Windows   Service   applications  
  XML  
  XML   Web   services