If you've watched some of the language introduction videos you would have seen a common thread.…With most of them I taught less about the language and more about the benefits…of the libraries that were available.…And these are sometimes called libraries. Sometimes they are wrapped up into the…term framework instead.…But it really means the same thing.…Huge amounts of code already written, already tested, ready for you to link to and use.…Say with C# in VB.NET you have the .NET framework.…With Java, you have the Java Class Library.…

With Objective-C, you have Cocoa or Cocoa Touch, depending on if you're focused…on the desktop or on the iPhone and iPod.…With Python, you have the standard library and so on.…This is another thing that programmers know that non-programmers don't.…It's not really about the language.…It's about the libraries.…So when you are learning C#, you might wonder if there's anything that can help…you connect with database.…And yes, there is, but it's not part of the language itself, but it's in…