Microsoft will stop providing security patches, bug fixes, and technical support for ASP.NET Core 2.3 on April 7, 2027.

Microsoft has set an end-of-support date of April 7, 2027, for ASP.NET Core 2.3, the only supported version on .NET Framework, even though .NET Framework (and the original ASP.NET) will continue to be ...

.NET is a programming framework created by Microsoft that developers can use to create applications more easily. As commenter dwroth aptly put it, "a framework is just a bunch of code that the ...

Microsoft is rebranding the products formerly known as ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core 5. Going forward, ASP.NET 5 will be known as ASP.NET Core 1.0, and .NET Core 5 will be renamed to .NET Core 1.0. Entity ...

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 ...

A year from the shift to .NET 5.0, Microsoft has told us what the next big .NET release will leave behind Microsoft’s shift to a new .NET is nearly complete. .NET Core 3.0 is here, and it’s the ...

In context: The .NET Framework technology has been part of the Windows platform since the NT 4.0/XP era, providing developers with an integrated environment (class library, language interoperability, ...

Last month, Microsoft announced it would open source more of its .NET programming framework and take it cross-platform to Linux and Mac. The centerpiece of this work is the .NET Core, the development ...

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...

TL;DR I can't uncheck NET Framework 4.8 from Server 2022: I'm troubleshooting a problem with an ERP system that we're trying to deploy. The server software runs atop SQL Server and uses AD, so I've ...