Microsoft has released version 8 of the .NET open-source developer platform. It has also launched the first preview of .NET Aspire, which is an opinionated stack made to create cloud-native apps.

Microsoft has announced today that it is making the first preview of .NET 8 available to download. This is the next long-term support release of the open-source developer platform. Today, Microsoft ...

He's hardly as well-known as Bill Gates but Eric Rudder will have more influence over the future of Microsoft's bet-the-company .Net software strategy than his more famous boss. Rudder, Microsoft's 35 ...

The .Net Reference Source Project is meant to help developers build better software, but they first must upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft said this week that it is now allowing developers to ...

Microsoft’s Multiplatform App UI framework for .NET allows developers to build desktop and mobile apps from a single C# and XAML codebase. Microsoft has formally introduced its .NET MAUI ...

.NET 7 has finally done what .NET 5 was supposed to do in 2020: crown Microsoft's years-long effort to unify disparate development products with "just one .NET going forward." On Tuesday, Nov. 8, the ...

Microsoft is building on its Azure Virtual Desktop service with a new, developer-target variant called Microsoft Dev Box. Microsoft took the wraps off the new service on May 24, which is Day 1 of its ...

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Microsoft's Visual Basic was named the "Most Dreaded" programming language for three years in a row by the Stack Overflow Developer Survey.

Microsoft has reminded customers that multiple .NET Framework versions signed using the insecure Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) will reach their end of life this month. The .NET Framework is a free ...