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 ...

At Build 2019 Microsoft unveiled its plans for the future of .NET, announcing that the next major release after .NET Core 3 would be a single version of .NET called .NET 5. Building on the rapid ...

Despite its age, Microsoft's .NET Framework continues to evolve to support its dedicated users. Meanwhile, a revamped version of the framework known as .NET Core has also developed a strong user base ...

Microsoft announced the release of .NET 11 at its .NET Conf 2026 virtual conference today, with improvements across C# and ...

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 ...

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, ...

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Support for .NET 8 and .NET 9, as well as PowerShell 7.4 and 7.5 running on them, will end on November 10, 2026 (US time; the ...

Microsoft releases urgent .NET security updates for Brotli and Linux flaws, fixes earlier patch issues, and urges developers to update affected apps.

Microsoft .NET 11 launched Nov. 10 as a standard-term support release supported through Nov. 14, 2028, the same end date as .NET 10 long-term support. Support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 ended the same day.

.NET 11 RC1 is Microsoft's first production-supported release candidate for the upcoming platform. RC1 adds changes across libraries, runtime, SDK, C# 15, ASP.NET Core and more. Microsoft plans to ...

NativeAOT command handling and the MSBuild server are now enabled by default. Preview 7 adds new runtime-async, C#, Blazor, MAUI and library capabilities. The .NET 11 Preview 7 SDK is version 11.0.100 ...