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History of DotNet

.Net was originally known as the NGWS (Next Generation Windows Services) which was said to be an Internet based platform of Next Generation Windows Services. Before the official announcement of .Net.
DOTNET FRAMEWORK
1)  1.0 (2002)
      MDE – Visual Studio
×          ASP.NET 1.0
×          CLR 1.0
×          C# 1.0
×          VB.NET 7
×          NetFx 1.0
2) 1.1 (2003)
      MDE – Visual Studio 2003
      New Features
×          Side by Side Execution
×          .NET Compact Framework
×          IP6 Support
×          API Changes
      Components
×          ASP.NET 1.1
×          CLR 1.1
×          C#1.1
×          VB.NET 7.1
×          NetFx 1.1
3) 2.0 (2005)
MDE – Visual Studio 2005
     New Features
     Components
×          ASP.NET 2.0
×          CLR 2.0
×          C#2.0
×          VB.NET 8.0
×          NetFx 2.0
×          ADO.NET 2.0

4) 3.0 (2006)
×          NetFx 3.0
×          WPF
×          WCF
×          WF
×          Windows Cardspace
5) 3.5  (2007)
      MDE – Visual Studio 2008
×          ASP.NET 3.5
×          CLR 2.0
×          C# 3.0
×          VB.NET 9
×          NetFx 3.5
6) 4.0 (2010)
×          Visual Studio 2010
×          ASP.NET 4.0
×          CLR 4.0

CLR
×          1.0
×          1.1
×          2.0
×          4.0
 ASP.NET
×          1.0
×          1.1
×          2.0
×          3.5
×          4.0
CSHARP (C#)
×          1.0
×          1.1
×          2.0
1.   Generics
2.   Iterators
3.   Partial Classes
4.   Nullable Types
5.   Anonymous Methods
6.   Namespace alias qualifier
7.   Static Classes
8.   External Assembly Alias
1.   Property Accessor Accessibility
2.   Covariance and Contra variance in Delegates
3.   Friend Assemblies
4.   Inline warning control
5.   Volatile
×          3.0
1.   LINQ
2.   Object initializers
3.   Collection initializers
4.   Anonymous types
5.   Local variable type inference
6.   Lambda expressions
7.   Expression trees
8.   Automatic properties
1.   Extension methods
2.   Partial methods
×          4.0
VB.NET
×          7.0
×          7.1
×          8.0
×          9.0