Even though Microsoft's development focus has shifted to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core initiative -- with the aging, traditional, Windows-only .NET Framework relegated primarily to fixes ...

Microsoft has reminded customers that multiple .NET Framework versions signed using the insecure Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) will reach their end of life this month. The .NET Framework is a free ...

Microsoft last week released a do-it-yourself kit to keep .NET Framework 4.0 happily up and running. The tool is pretty narrow in focus, rectifying known update and setup issues reaching back to XP SP ...

At Build 2019 Microsoft unveiled its plans for the future of .NET, announcing that the next major release after .NET Core 3 would be a single version of .NET called .NET 5. Building on the rapid ...

Through the looking glass: The .NET framework was originally developed by Microsoft in the early 2000s to simplify software development on Windows. The technology was later ported to other computing ...