.net framework questions.

[Irelandrulz2]

This may answer your questions :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework

I know it's a long read, sorry bud :p

It seems that it can be used for C#, C++ and VB.
I'm not sure of the benefits of using it, although "the framework's Base Class Library provides a large range of features including user interface, data access, database connectivity, cryptography, web application development, numeric algorithms, and network communications."

So many people have sent me to that link. It looks to me it only supports C#, and that's only the latest release of 4.0! That still doesn't answer my other questions.