库和框架之间最重要的区别，实际上是定义性的区别是控制反转。

这是什么意思?好吧，这意味着当你打电话给图书馆时，你是在控制。但是对于框架，控件是反向的:框架调用您。(这就是所谓的好莱坞原则:不要给我们打电话，我们会给你打电话。)这就是框架的定义。如果它没有控制反转，它就不是一个框架。(我在看你，.NET!)

基本上，所有的控制流都已经在框架中，只有一堆预定义的白点，您可以用您的代码填写。

另一方面，库是您可以调用的功能的集合。

I don't know if the term toolkit is really well defined. Just the word "kit" seems to suggest some kind of modularity, i.e. a set of independent libraries that you can pick and choose from. What, then, makes a toolkit different from just a bunch of independent libraries? Integration: if you just have a bunch of independent libraries, there is no guarantee that they will work well together, whereas the libraries in a toolkit have been designed to work well together – you just don't have to use all of them.

但这只是我对这个术语的解释。与定义良好的库和框架不同，我不认为工具包有一个被广泛接受的定义。

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如果你是一个视觉学习者，下面的图表会让你更清楚:

(学分:http://tom.lokhorst.eu/2010/09/why-libraries-are-better-than-frameworks)

非常非常相似，框架通常比库更完善和完整，而工具包可以简单地是类似库和框架的集合。

这是一个非常好的问题，在本质上可能有一点点主观，但我相信这是我能给出的最好的答案。

Others have noted that .net may be both a framework and a library and a toolkit depending on which part you use but perhaps an example helps. Entity Framework for dealing with databases is a part of .net that does use the inversion of control pattern. You let it know your models it figures out what to do with them. As a programmer it requires you to understand "the mind of the framework", or more realistically the mind of the designer and what they are going to do with your inputs. datareader and related calls, on the other hand, are simply a tool to go get or put data to and from table/view and make it available to you. It would never understand how to take a parent child relationship and translate it from object to relational, you'd use multiple tools to do that. But you would have much more control on how that data was stored, when, transactions, etc.

关于Mittag的正确答案:

一个简单的例子。假设您在一个类中实现了ISerializable接口(. net)。你利用了。net的框架特性，而不是库特性。你填上“白点”(就像mittag说的)，你就完成了骨架。你必须事先知道框架将如何“反应”你的代码。实际上。net是一个框架，这就是我不同意Mittag观点的地方。

你的问题的完整的答案在本书的第19章(整个章节都是关于这个主题的)中给出了，顺便说一下，这是一本非常好的书(完全不是“只是为了Smalltalk”)。

Martin Fowler在他关于反转控制的文章中讨论了库和框架之间的区别:

Inversion of Control is a key part of what makes a framework different to a library. A library is essentially a set of functions that you can call, these days usually organized into classes. Each call does some work and returns control to the client. A framework embodies some abstract design, with more behavior built in. In order to use it you need to insert your behavior into various places in the framework either by subclassing or by plugging in your own classes. The framework's code then calls your code at these points.

总结一下:你的代码调用一个库，而框架调用你的代码。