Since .NET Framework 3.0 Microsoft's versioning strategy confuses the community. Scott Hanselman explains the how and why of the drift between marketing and reality.

Capabilities for post-quantum cryptography and ASP.NET Core Identity metrics highlight latest update to Microsoft’s app dev ...

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 ...

As expected, Microsoft today announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. To celebrate, the company is hosting a launch consisting of more than 150 developer ...

On VB columnist Joe Kunk shows you how to create and extract "almost" .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4 and standard .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4.5. The ability to compress multiple files from one or ...

Having just shipped .NET Core 3.1, Microsoft is turning its focus to the next stop on its .NET roadmap. Due in November 2020, .NET 5 (no "Core" and no "Framework") will mark the transition from ...

Enhancements for Everyone Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 have something for every developer. The new editor, now using Windows Presentation Foundation, delivers a more flexible, feature-rich ...

Microsoft this week warned Windows Server 2012 users against uninstalling older .NET Framework versions.

Some Windows users while attempting to install a program or a particular version of .NET Framework on their Windows 11/10 device might be stymied by the error message ...