Application of .NET 2.0 in latest Software!

[MrBeans]

Hello All,
I see that many of the latest software and drivers! seem to have .NET 2.0 framework to be a pre-requisite for installation. My guess is that .NET framework is used for the front end UI and good old application programming platform like Win32 are used in the Backend using interop. Am I correct here? Or Is it that the whole thing is made using .NET?

[hoxsiew]

Probably not the correct forum for this question.

At the core, .NET applications eventually use the win32 API to actually render pixels on the screen and whatnot, but the .NET paradigm is a radical departure from Win32 API.

[Marc G]

When you use the full .NET framework you can do everything in it. You can use it to create windows, to use network, to work with strings, images, ... No need to interop for these things.