Microsoft's game-changing .NET Core initiative that's superseding the Windows-only .NET Framework will this year reach an important milestone, .NET 5, a unification of all things .NET. Key to this ...

Microsoft just announced .NET Standard 2.1, its first update in more than a year as it plays catch-up with the .NET Core implementation, which is about to hit v2.2. The .NET Standard is a formal ...

It’s been 17 years since Microsoft unveiled its .Net strategy at its Forum 2000 event. Although the resulting marketing blunders led to some confusion about exactly what .Net was—the name turned up on ...

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A new release of the .Net Standard library is around the corner, with significant benefits to developers—and a major shift in .Net's evolution Modernizing .Net is a slow process. Although it’s not ...

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, ...

.NET is a programming framework created by Microsoft that developers can use to create applications more easily. As commenter dwroth aptly put it, "a framework is just a bunch of code that the ...