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 not only changed the way we build code, it changed the way Microsoft builds code. It’s 20 years since Microsoft delivered the first full release of .NET and its suite of developer tools. .NET has ...

Microsoft has released C# 14 and .NET 10, a long-term support version, along with a bunch of related products including Visual Studio 2026 and Aspire 13. Copilot Free is included but devs will soon ...

One of the key themes of Microsoft’s 2020 developer strategy is perhaps best thought of as the shift between generations. It’s a relatively smooth handover, framed as a unification of old and new ways ...

Is Microsoft preparing to port part of its .Net platform to Linux? Beta testers and developers think so, saying there is growing evidence that the software giant may well ship a smaller version of its ...

Microsoft is forcing .NET developers to quickly update their apps and developer pipelines so they do not use 'azureedge.net' domains to install .NET components, as the domain will soon be unavailable ...

In this year's big Stack Overflow developer survey things are much the same for Microsoft-centric data points: VS Code and Visual Studio still rule the IDE roost, while .NET maintains its No. 1 ...

.NET (pronounced “dot net” and sometimes written as .Net) is an open source development platform consisting of a software development framework and an accompanying ecosystem of tools, languages, and ...