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 ...

The web-dev ASP.NET Core framework and Xamarin.Forms' successor .NET MAUI received the lion's share of dev attention in the seventh preview of .NET 9 as Microsoft preps for a November launch at .NET ...

With the release last year of .NET 5, Microsoft switched its platform development away from the 20-year-old .NET Framework to the newer, cross-platform, open source .NET Core. The .NET Framework has ...

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First, it was problems with moving from the proprietary .NET Framework to the open source, cross-platform .NET Core (now just .NET). Then, it was problems with Visual Studio 2022 moving to the 64-bit ...

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, ...

Microsoft .NET 9 Preview 7 also brings new features and enhancements to the ASP.NET Core web framework and .NET MAUI UI framework. Microsoft has released a seventh preview of its forthcoming .NET 9 ...