The .NET Framework is a development platform for building apps for web, Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Server, and Microsoft Azure. It consists of the common language runtime (CLR) and the .NET Framework class library, which includes a broad range of functionality and support for many industry standards. The .NET Framework provides many services, including memory management, type and memory safety, security, networking, and application deployment. It provides easy-to-use data structures and APIs that abstract the lower-level Windows operating system. You can use a variety of programming languages with the .NET Framework, including C#, F#, and Visual Basic. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 is a highly compatible, in-place update to Microsoft .NET Framework 4, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, and 4.7.1. You can see the full set of changes in the .NET Framework 4.7.2 in the [what's new list](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/whats-new/index#v472), [change list](https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet/blob/master/releases/net472/dotnet472-changes.md) and [API diff](https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet/blob/master/releases/net472/dotnet472-api-changes.md) on [GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/dotnet). The matching Developer Pack can be installed using [this package](https://chocolatey.org/packages/netfx-4.7.2-devpack). **This package is intended to be used by package maintainers as a dependency.** For end users the [dotnetfx](https://chocolatey.org/packages/dotnetfx) package is recommended, because it provides an easy way to upgrade the .NET Framework to a future release using standard Chocolatey mechanisms. On systems which have a newer version of the .NET Framework installed, this package installs successfully, but does nothing.