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 is rebranding the products formerly known as ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core 5. Going forward, ASP.NET 5 will be known as ASP.NET Core 1.0, and .NET Core 5 will be renamed to .NET Core 1.0. Entity ...

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The modernization of the .NET ecosystem is paying off for Microsoft's Bing.com engineering team, which reports a 34 percent performance boost for the search engine following a shift from .NET ...

The classic .NET Framework 3.5 will no longer be an optional Windows component in the future, but a standalone setup.

Microsoft has released the open source code for CoreCLR, the execution engine for its .NET Framework fork, .NET Core. .NET Core was opened-sourced last year, and aims to make it simpler to develop ...