Microsoft has released a public preview of dotnetup, a cross-platform toolchain manager that installs and updates .NET SDKs ...

Get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $29.97. The Windows IDE includes .NET, C++, Blazor, .NET MAUI, AI coding ...

.NET 11 Preview 6 includes updates across the runtime, libraries, SDK, C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework Core, F# and container images. Major themes include end-to-end async validation, ...

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 ...

Microsoft .NET 6 marks a new era of developing performant, modern-day applications for web, cloud, desktop, and mobile devices. Microsoft .NET 6 is the culmination of the .NET unification that started ...

In announcing .NET 8 today, Microsoft emphasized the cloud, performance, full-stack Blazor, AI and .NET MAUI as major highlights of the latest edition of the company's free, cross-platform, open ...

Microsoft’s new UWP-friendly tools bridge the gap between the old and the new worlds of .NET to help old code into the latest .NET stack. Microsoft’s journey to today’s Windows App SDK and Win UI as a ...

Microsoft will launch .NET 11 at its annual .NET Conf this coming weekend, and there’s a major C# Dev Kit update, too: Microsoft says it will upgrade C# Dev Kit from version 3.3 to 11, aligning it ...

You can install .NET 11 from the .NET website. You can install the latest Visual Studio 2026 Insiders release on the Visual ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

On June 13th, Microsoft released Patch Tuesday. The updates addressed security vulnerabilities but also led to new bugs. To address such an issue related to .NET, the company released OOB updates. And ...

Microsoft this week promised one less reboot with Windows 11 version 22H2 client feature updates because of a coming change to how .NET Framework updates will be delivered. With a coming improvement, ...