Once limited to Windows, .NET now allows developers to easily build cross-platform web, mobile, and cloud applications.

Leaner container images, simpler code syntax, and a welcome surprise—.NET Aspire, an opinionated stack for building cloud-native applications with .NET.

Internet Explorer is soon to be retired, and older versions of .Net are about to run out of support. But that doesn't mean Windows users should start deleting things right now.

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 ...

What is .NET? .NET, pronounced as "dot net," is a free and open-source developer platform developed by Microsoft. It provides tools, libraries, and runtime environments for building various types ...

Following last .NET Connect 2016, a few Microsoft MVPs have published their views on what .NET Standard is and where it is headed.

In a Visual Studio Live! conference keynote Tuesday a couple of Microsoft program managers discussed .NET today and tomorrow, clearly signaling that .NET Core is the future of the ecosystem and that ...

Microsoft's ambitious .Net initiative faces a problem that has nothing to do with the technology itself: explaining it.

.NET Standard is an API specification that defines what Base Class Libraries must be implemented. .NET Core is a managed framework optimized for building console, cloud, ASP.NET Core, and UWP ...

Microsoft's new .NET 7 Preview 3 showcases native ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation, a much-requested and long-awaited feature for .NET, with Microsoft even taking the time to explain what it is.