The next major release, .NET 11, should arrive in November 2026, and the project recently unveiled its first public preview. Like earlier first looks, it’s nowhere near feature complete, with several ...

"The future has truly arrived," said Microsoft's Richard Lander in announcing the new .NET 6 Preview 5. November's .NET 6 GA release will culminate Microsoft's .NET unification effort, putting all the ...

True to its word, Microsoft this week shipped .NET 7 Preview 1, the first look at the upcoming umbrella release that will finally unify all the disparate .NET dev tooling. That will enable developers ...

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Microsoft has released the first developer preview of .NET 5, its next major release of the .NET family that's set for general availability in November and allows developers to build native apps that ...

Last week, Microsoft released the first preview of .NET 6. The new version of the framework represents the final steps of the .NET unification plan that started with .NET 5, providing a cross-platform ...

Microsoft has announced today that it is making the first preview of .NET 8 available to download. This is the next long-term support release of the open-source developer platform. Today, Microsoft ...

.NET 8, the latest version of Microsoft’s open-source, cross-platform, application development platform, has arrived, bringing with it thousands of performance, security, and stability improvements.