Earlier today, at .NET Conf 2020, Microsoft released .NET 5 (with a simultaneous announcement on their development blog). The new release focuses on improvements of .NET Core 3.1: smaller single-file ...

Microsoft's .NET team boasts that the forthcoming .NET 5 development stack will offer major performance improvements. .NET 5 represents Microsoft's effort to cherrypick the best of .NET Core, .NET ...

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Microsoft shipped preview 7 of the milestone .NET 5 project that in November will combine all things .NET under one unifying umbrella release in the company's new open source, cross-platform direction ...

On November 10, Microsoft released .NET 5.0, the next big release in the .NET developer platform. .NET 5 is key to Microsoft's promise of unifying the different .NET flavors across operating systems, ...

One of the key themes of Microsoft’s 2020 developer strategy is perhaps best thought of as the shift between generations. It’s a relatively smooth handover, framed as a unification of old and new ways ...

Microsoft released the latest general availability (GA) version of .NET with .NET 6 yesterday at the .NET Conf 2021 virtual event. Alongside it, the company also launched Visual Studio 2022. You can ...

Developers can now feel free to use .NET 5 code in production, as Microsoft has deemed the new Release Candidate 1 a "go live" release ahead of the official debut on Nov. 10 -- after one more release ...

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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 the ...