Microsoft is set to take its all-important Web services plan to its most important clientele: software developers. After four years of development and two years of marketing hype, Microsoft will on ...

On November 10, Microsoft released .NET 5.0, the next big release in the .NET developer platform. .NET 5 is key to Microsoft's promise of unifying the different .NET flavors across operating systems, ...

In announcing .NET 8 today, Microsoft emphasized the cloud, performance, full-stack Blazor, AI and .NET MAUI as major highlights of the latest edition of the company's free, cross-platform, open ...

Microsoft apologized for an admitted mistake and reversed an earlier decision to limit Hot Reload functionality in the upcoming .NET 6, which is due to debut in a few weeks. "First and foremost, we ...

Overview:  Both .NET 6 and .NET 8 are Long-Term Support (LTS) releases, but .NET 8 introduces significant improvements in runtime performance, cloud-native ...

Hot Reload enables developers to modify your program's managed source code while it's running. There's no need to manually pause the program or put it in a breakpoint. You can make changes on the fly ...

Forward-looking: Earlier editions of the .NET Framework were designed to provide a development platform for Windows-exclusive applications. Today, the technology supports all major computer and mobile ...

Microsoft has revealed that .NET 6 will soon reach the end of its official support. The free open-source developer platform will no longer be supported by the company on November 12, 2024. The end is ...

Microsoft has announced that .NET 7 will reach the end of its official support on May 14, 2024. The company recommends updating to the current version of the open-source dev tool, NET 8. Software ...

Last month, the latest edition of the .NET Conf: Focus series for 2024 took place, featuring AI development topics. The event targeted developers of all levels, with both informative and hands-on ...

Through the looking glass: The .NET framework was originally developed by Microsoft in the early 2000s to simplify software development on Windows. The technology was later ported to other computing ...