Hello,
I come from MFC/Win32 background and would like to learn .NET the Win32 way. I have not been to go any step closer to this objective. I have done some analysis.

I believe that .NET is a new platform something like Win32 was when released. Is this true? If so is .NET execuable totally unrelated to Win32 executable, do .NET executable have relation to user32.dll, gdi32.dll etc?

What are these .NET dll's like the system.windows.forms.dll? These dll's do not seem to export any functions to the outside world so how do they communicate with an executable?

What kind of structure do .NET executable follow in terms of handling events, messages? Is it the same as that for Win32 executable?