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A framework is a basic conceptual structure used to solve or address complex issues
Conceptual framework
A conceptual framework is used in research to outline possible courses of action or to present a preferred approach to an idea or thought.
Software framework
A software framework is a re-usable design for a software system (or subsystem). A software framework may include support programs, code libraries, a scripting language, or other software to help develop and glue together the different components of a software project. Various parts of the framework may be exposed through an API.

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a framework is basically a base provided to develop applications. this base can be interms of tools,class libraries,or any other kind of infrastucture. for example in .net

1.CRL is for executing your applications and provides other facilities like garbage collection, memory management, exception handling etc.

2 BCL -Base class library- to make developer's life easy so that he doesn't have to invent the wheel again. he can use the the classes to create your own applications.

3. Visual Studio - A tool for the developers for coding and other stuff.

so .net framework is a kind of infrastucture provided by microsoft to develop windows, web, distributed and smart client applications in a more efficient way.

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Anurag Sharma

framework is like a mediam between Oprating System and .net when we give any type of command then the command is goes to framewark and the farmework is convert this command to Binary Code then he give this to OS