It’s been 17 years since Microsoft unveiled its .Net strategy at its Forum 2000 event. Although the resulting marketing blunders led to some confusion about exactly what .Net was—the name turned up on ...

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Microsoft’s .NET strategy may have been a little unclear recently, with two distinct strands of development in the familiar .NET Framework and the new, open-source .NET Core. A common set of .NET ...

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 ...

Microsoft's game-changing .NET Core initiative that's superseding the Windows-only .NET Framework will this year reach an important milestone, .NET 5, a unification of all things .NET. Key to this ...

Microsoft announced Entity Framework 6.3 Preview, which takes the traditional open source object-relational mapping (ORM) framework to the .NET Core space, joining Entity Framework Core as an option ...