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 ...

In one of its fastest service pack releases, Microsoft Corp. this week issued an SP1 for the .NET Framework that was released to manufacturing in January and formally launched a month later. The .NET ...

For more than 12 years now, the .NET framework has been the programming model for developers who want to build apps for Windows. But in its efforts to take many of its developer tools cross-platform, ...

In the .NET Framework 4.0 or earlier, you have to set the culture for each thread individually. At the very least, this meant setting the CurrentThread object's CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture ...

The sprawling .NET 5 ecosystem can be hard to get a handle on. Going live in November 2020, .NET 5 was a milestone release in Microsoft's effort to move off the old Windows-only .NET Framework to a ...