Microsoft’s .NET strategy may have been a little unclear recently, with two distinct strands of development in the familiar .NET Framework and the new, open-source .NET Core. A common set of .NET ...

A open-source version of Microsoft's .NET platform for ARM devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.). It runs in as little as 300KB of RAM compared to 12MB for the .NET Framework. The .NET Micro Framework ...

A client-only version of the .NET Framework that was introduced with .NET Framework 3.5. If an application requires the .NET Framework, it is often packaged with the ...

Microsoft's new .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Standard 2.0 offerings may be generating the most buzz among .NET developers these days, but for many use cases the traditional .NET Framework is still the best ...

Last month, Microsoft announced it would open source more of its .NET programming framework and take it cross-platform to Linux and Mac. The centerpiece of this work is the .NET Core, the development ...

Microsoft today announced that multiple .NET Framework versions signed using the legacy and insecure Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) will reach end of support next year. The .NET Framework is a free ...

These are the steps you need to enable .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.5 in Windows 11: .NET is a platform comprising various tools, programming languages, and other resources necessary for building a ...

Microsoft has announced that the classic .NET Framework version 3.5 will no longer be part of the operating system setup in Windows 11 starting in 2026. Previously, .NET Framework 3.5 was an optional ...