What end-of-life really means When Microsoft declares a runtime “end of life,” the headlines often make it sound like your ...

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Overview: Modern .NET evolved from .NET Core and supports cross-platform cloud development environments.NET Framework remains widely used in legacy enterprise s ...

Microsoft announced the availability of .NET 10 Release Candidate 2 (RC2), the final prerelease version before general availability. As with RC1, the release is production-ready with a go-live support ...

Many Visual Studio developers are looking forward to the debut of .NET 9 in November, but they should also be aware of a potential security issue with .NET 6, which will reach end of support at the ...

Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.

.NET Aspire is a cloud-native application stack designed to simplify the development of distributed systems in .NET. Introduced at Microsoft's 2024 Build developer conference, it provides a set of ...

.NET 8, the next planned version of the Microsoft’s open source software development platform, is set to emphasize Linux accommodations as well as cloud development and containers. The new .NET ...

The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...