C# or C-Sharp is the programming language behind .NET (dotnet) and the Unity framework. It was created at Microsoft as a C-like object-oriented language and is used to build apps for web, desktop, ...

Today, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic.NET and Python are popular object-oriented languages. The following compares basic OOP terms with traditional programming. See object-oriented DBMS.

3 C# Microsoft announced C# in 2001 as a modern, object-oriented programming language built from the ground up to exploit the power of XML-based Web services on the .NET platform.