It’s been 17 years since Microsoft unveiled its .Net strategy at its Forum 2000 event. Although the resulting marketing blunders led to some confusion about exactly what .Net was—the name turned up on ...

Microsoft's .NET Core 2.0 is done and available for download as of Aug. 14. Microsoft's primary goal with .NET Core and .NET Standard was to make more of its application programming interfaces (APIs) ...

Microsoft just announced .NET Standard 2.1, its first update in more than a year as it plays catch-up with the .NET Core implementation, which is about to hit v2.2. The .NET Standard is a formal ...

Leading cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services (AWS) open sourced its tool for helping users port old .NET Framework applications to the new .NET Core framework. While several .NET Framework-to- ...

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Microsoft says Windows admins can now opt into automatic updates for .NET Framework and .NET Core via Microsoft Update (MU) on Windows Server systems. The new option has started rolling out today, and ...

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...