Legacy .NET Framework version is now available as a standalone installer for applications that require it on newer versions of Windows. Microsoft’s .NET Framework 3 ...

Microsoft has announced that the classic .NET Framework version 3.5 will no longer be part of the operating system setup in Windows 11 starting in 2026. Previously, .NET Framework 3.5 was an optional ...

The next major release, .NET 11, should arrive in November 2026, and the project recently unveiled its first public preview. Like earlier first looks, it’s nowhere near feature complete, with several ...

Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. This milestone indicates that the API surface is stable and feature-complete ...

Microsoft has released ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 1, introducing new Blazor components like EnvironmentBoundary, Label, and DisplayName, along with relative URI navigation, QuickGrid row click ...

Microsoft introduces agent technology to Visual Studio, featuring curated assistants and personalized agent creation tools.

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VS Code's AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry can speed up agent development, but real-world success often depends on picking the right runtime and region, keeping tool-driven context under control, and ...

Using an internal fingerprint reader is just a matter of making sure it’s activated in the BIOS. Using an external reader with your desktop or laptop is typically a plug-and-play process. In either ...