Microsoft has released a seventh preview of its forthcoming .NET 9 software development platform, with enhancements to C# for API authors. The .NET runtime, SDK, and other areas also are improved.

At dotnetConf, Microsoft highlighted the flexibility and agility of the .NET development platform. Here are some of the things discussed at the event.

Although .NET Framework does not support .NET Standard 2.1, Mono's class libraries do support it, so we should be able to provide a nice bridge to a .NET Core-based ecosystem." Complete C# 8 support: ...

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 ...

Forward-looking: Earlier editions of the .NET Framework were designed to provide a development platform for Windows-exclusive applications. Today, the technology supports all major computer and ...

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 ...

Microsoft's .NET 5 developer platform, key to the company's work to unify its different .NET flavors, is generally available as of today, November 10.