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 ...

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 has announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. This milestone indicates that the API surface is stable and feature-complete ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released the first developer preview of .NET 5, its next major release of the .NET family that's set for general availability in November and allows developers to build native apps that ...

Two months after .NET 10.0, Microsoft starts preview series for version 11, primarily with innovations in the web frontend framework Blazor.

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 ...

With the release last year of .NET 5, Microsoft switched its platform development away from the 20-year-old .NET Framework to the newer, cross-platform, open source .NET Core. The .NET Framework has ...

Microsoft's .NET Core 2.0 is done and available for download as of Aug. 14. Microsoft's primary goal with .NET Core and .NET Standard was to make more of its application programming interfaces (APIs) ...