One of the key themes of Microsoft’s 2020 developer strategy is perhaps best thought of as the shift between generations. It’s a relatively smooth handover, framed as a unification of old and new ways ...

NET 11 Preview 4 delivers a broad set of developer-facing updates across .NET MAUI, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, Entity Framework Core, the SDK, libraries and runtime performance work.

With the release last year of .NET 5, Microsoft switched its platform development away from the 20-year-old .NET Framework to the newer, cross-platform, open source .NET Core. The .NET Framework has ...

Microsoft has urged developers still using the long-term support (LTS) release of .NET Core 3.1 to migrate to the latest .NET Core versions until it reaches the end of support (EOS) next month. The ...

It has been quite a project to rip out the Entity Framework bits from the old, proprietary Windows-only .NET Framework and put them in its successor, the open source, cross-platform ".NET Core" scheme ...

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 ...

The fourth preview brings new methods to existing classes in the .NET base class library and a new configuration file for Entity Framework Core.

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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10 years ago today, Microsoft promised to build “the next generation Internet.” The occasion was Forum 2000, where Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer announced.NET, now one of the most popular ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...