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As a childhood user of QB45, VB, and then VC++, the whole .NET branding to me was confusing and abysmally explained, and I swear my gut reaction when I see it is that I still don't understand it. At the time it felt like a completely out-of-touch attempt to get in on the dot com craze, and the name itself made no fucking sense.

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QB45 had that function-list feature (F2) that I wish all editors had since. It was so clean to see only the current function in “the buffer” rather than a scroll of them in a single file.

The name had to do with web services, which were the Hot New Thing at the time, at least as far as "enterprise" development went. One of the things that were prominently featured in all .NET 1.0 promotional material is first-class support for SOAP.

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