Quote Originally Posted by Joacim Andersson View Post
C# is really named C#.Net just as VB is named VB.Net, however since there never been a C# that isn't for the .Net framework it's was easier for people to just drop the .Net part. But yes, just like ActiveX, .Net doesn't really say anything except that they are labels for a broad technology.
I have to beg to differ a bit on this. C# has always been C# (except when it was 'Cool'). Visual C# was Visual C#.NET. Stating the obvious, Visual C#/Visual C#.NET is Microsoft's implementation of C#.