Today is a big release day for Microsoft dev tools, with the final versions of .NET Core 2.0, Visual Studio 2017 15.3 and Visual Studio for Mac 7.1 all arriving together. .NET Core 2.0 is described by ...

In a Visual Studio Live! conference keynote Tuesday a couple of Microsoft program managers were on hand to discuss what's going on with .NET today and tomorrow, clearly signaling that .NET Core is the ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...

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 ...

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft’s .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...

Microsoft has shipped .NET 10, the platform created from a combination of .NET Framework and .NET Core, including C# 14 and F# 10. Visual Studio 2026 has also been released at .NET Conf, the online ...

Microsoft has released C# 14 and .NET 10, a long-term support version, along with a bunch of related products including Visual Studio 2026 and Aspire 13. Copilot Free is included but devs will soon ...

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