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 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 .NET 6 marks a new era of developing performant, modern-day applications for web, cloud, desktop, and mobile devices. Microsoft .NET 6 is the culmination of the .NET unification that started ...

Microsoft’s new UWP-friendly tools bridge the gap between the old and the new worlds of .NET to help old code into the latest .NET stack. Microsoft’s journey to today’s Windows App SDK and Win UI as a ...

At its Build developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced a slew of new features for its .NET platform. With over 1.8 billion installs and 6 million professional developers, .NET — ...

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, ...

Microsoft today announced that it is furthering its commitment to cross-platform development with an expanded open source program for its .NET platform and additional support for operating systems ...

For more than 12 years now, the .NET framework has been the programming model for developers who want to build apps for Windows. But in its efforts to take many of its developer tools cross-platform, ...

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 12, 2001 — During his COMDEX Fall 2001 keynote address, Microsoft Corp. founder, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced that the launch of Visual Studio® .NET will ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13, 2002 — In the most significant product launch of the new Microsoft® .NET era, Microsoft Corp. Chief Software Architect Bill Gates today launched Visual Studio® .NET and the ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Open source fans, rejoice: Microsoft has released its new “Roslyn” .NET compiler platform preview as an open source project. That means developers can clone the company’s compiler for ...

At its Build 2014 conference today, Microsoft announced it is open sourcing its .NET compiler platform “Roslyn” – and then did exactly that, live on stage. Microsoft’s Anders Hejlsberg hit the button ...