At its Build developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced a slew of new features for its .NET platform. With over 1.8 billion installs and 6 million professional developers, .NET — ...

In a move few would have ever imagined coming to pass, Microsoft is open sourcing more of its .Net developer framework and programming languages. Company officials announced the move on April 3 at ...

First a little background, I don't have VS.NET, or any of its components. But I do have the .NET 1.1 framework, the .NET SDK, and the Windows Platform SDK.<BR><BR>I was following the documentation on ...

Once viewed as the nemesis of open source — and probably still seen that way by some — Microsoft on Thursday nonetheless continued its week of gestures toward the open source community. At its Build ...

Microsoft made available this week for public testing a build of a new 64-bit .Net compiler built by the company's .Net runtime code-generation team. In a September 30 blog post on the .Net Framework ...

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 ...

Last November, Microsoft said that it would bring some of the core features of its .NET platform — which has traditionally been Windows-only — to Linux and Mac. Today, at its Build developer ...