In 2011 even low-end laptops come with two cores and, at the high end, eight and even 16 cores aren't uncommon. Similarly, you would be hard-pressed to find a server that didn't have at least support ...

The frequency with which Microsoft has changed database access technologies is remarkable, with each new scheme offering the promise that .NET developers have finally arrived at a long-term solution.

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 ...

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 ...

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Forward-looking: Earlier editions of the .NET Framework were designed to provide a development platform for Windows-exclusive applications. Today, the technology supports all major computer and mobile ...

Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET. Microsoft’s Visual Studio is its primary development ...

.NET not only changed the way we build code, it changed the way Microsoft builds code. It’s 20 years since Microsoft delivered the first full release of .NET and its suite of developer tools. .NET has ...