C# compiles to MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language, formerly known as portable binary format), an intermediate, assembly-like language to which all .Net languages compile.

Visual Basic and C#: A new divergence is coming With last week’s announcement, that co-evolution is gone. Microsoft will let the two languages go different ways, starting with the soon-to-be ...

As with most .NET project types, you can create the entire application in Notepad. To create a Web service, you’ll need to have at least the ASP.NET engine installed.

Among the .NET news out of Microsoft Build 2020 is a new preview of C#, Microsoft's programming language from the .NET team, plus a fully supported release of Blazor WebAssembly.

When it comes specifically to the language syntax, C# and Java are both languages in the C and C++ family. Sure, you could say that C# code looks like Java code, but you could also say that Java ...

Microsoft unveiled a preview of authoring support in an update to the C#/WinRT tool used to help C# developers more easily work with interfaces to the Windows Runtime, the underlying infrastructure ...

Microsoft has open sourced a .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server, allowing developers to work with relational data in the company's flagship programming language. The new tool joins similar ...

January 8, 2024 For the first time since 2001, when TIOBE Software began publishing the results of its monthly search for the languages in which the most lines of code were written, C# has earned the ...

The ILAsm section actually lets you create a Console project to be written directly in Intermediate Language (IL). For this example, choose to create a Gtk# 2.0 Project (under C#).