As expected, Microsoft today announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. To celebrate, the company is hosting a launch consisting of more than 150 developer-focused ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft gave MSDN subscribers Release Candidate downloads of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. As promised, the releases are now available to the general public via the ...

Visual Studio 2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5 are build complete and will be available to Microsoft-focused developers starting Aug. 15. Jason Zander, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President for Visual ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

NEW YORK — Nov. 12, 2014 — On Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. reinforced its commitment to cross-platform developer experiences by open sourcing the full server-side .NET stack and expanding .NET to run on ...

The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...