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 ...

The next major release, .NET 11, should arrive in November 2026, and the project recently unveiled its first public preview. Like earlier first looks, it’s nowhere near feature complete, with several ...

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 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 ...

Microsoft has revealed that .NET 6 will soon reach the end of its official support. The free open-source developer platform will no longer be supported by the company on November 12, 2024. The end is ...

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 ...

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