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 ...

Microsoft has released .NET Framework 4.8, the latest version of the company’s application development framework for Windows. The update brings a number of bug fixes, security patches, and ...

Two members of Microsoft's Windows Forms dev team appeared in a Channel 9 video on "Supporting VB.NET" in .NET 5," a task that in some ways poses "a huge challenge." Specifically, one such aspect is ...

Having just shipped .NET Core 3.1, Microsoft is turning its focus to the next stop on its .NET roadmap. Due in November 2020, .NET 5 (no "Core" and no "Framework") will mark the transition from the ...

Microsoft’s .NET strategy may have been a little unclear recently, with two distinct strands of development in the familiar .NET Framework and the new, open-source .NET Core. A common set of .NET ...

In context: The .NET Framework technology has been part of the Windows platform since the NT 4.0/XP era, providing developers with an integrated environment (class library, language interoperability, ...