The NET development framework facilitates writing applications in more than one programming language like VB or C#. While writing a .NET application, you can always opt for a language of-our choice. You can even write each module (say a Windows form or a Web form) of an application in a different language.



On the other hand, PHP is a popular open source scripting language which is used typically for writing Web based applications. Being a scripting language, applications written in PHP are interpreted and not compiled. With a piece of software/plugin called Phalanger, you carW1se PHP as one of the languages for wrriting .Net applications. Plus these applications, written in PHP will be compiled - as with any application written in .NET language. Plus, Phalanger offers an extension/plugin for Visual Studio which allows you to write PHP based .Net applications in Visual Studio 2008 (the latest in the Visual Studio family).