Microsoft describes .NET as “a consistent object-oriented programming environment, whether object code is stored and executed locally, executed locally but Internet-distributed, or executed ...

What is .NET? .NET, pronounced as "dot net," is a free and open-source developer platform developed by Microsoft. It provides tools, libraries, and runtime environments for building various types ...

Therefore, .NET 4.0 introduces many enhancements and simplifications for those writing multi-threaded or parallelized applications. The .NET languages also have gained the functional programming ...

Microsoft's .NET Core 2.0 is done and available for download as of Aug. 14. Microsoft's primary goal with .NET Core and .NET Standard was to make more of its application programming interfaces ...

From new features like async return types and advice on when to use the latest structures, here's Microsoft MVP Jason Bock's top tips for developers currently working with concurrent and asynchronous ...

Microsoft has fired its first .Net volley in the new year. On Tuesday at the VSLive developers conference in San Francisco, Microsoft (msft) is slated to take the wraps off its latest programming ...

The .NET Framework provides a few avenues to get on the ramp to asynchronous programming. Some of your implementation choices from the most basic to complex include using background workers, invoking ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) layer for the .NET development platform. Designed to simplify the process of bringing support for additional dynamic languages to .NET ...