It’s been 17 years since Microsoft unveiled its .Net strategy at its Forum 2000 event. Although the resulting marketing blunders led to some confusion about exactly what .Net was—the name turned up on ...

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) ...

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Microsoft is rebranding the products formerly known as ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core 5. Going forward, ASP.NET 5 will be known as ASP.NET Core 1.0, and .NET Core 5 will be renamed to .NET Core 1.0. Entity ...

Microsoft outlined its plan for Entity Framework Core 6, which in November will take its place as the data access component of the landmark .NET 6, a long-term support (LTS) release that will mark ...

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 ...

.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 ...