Microsoft, in its quest to encourage developers to build software for its services plan, makes key development tools available online. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' ...

Next version of Microsoft’s software development platform brings improvements for JIT compilation, WebAssembly, C#, and F#.

Leaner container images, simpler code syntax, and a welcome surprise—.NET Aspire, an opinionated stack for building cloud-native applications with .NET. One of the recurring themes of recent developer ...

The company hopes sneak peeks into upcoming versions and new additions to its Visual Studio.Net tools will lure developers. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

During this week's Build 2024 developer conference, Microsoft shipped Visual Studio 2022 v17.10, the latest update to its flagship IDE that improves Copilot AI assistance and debuts the new .NET ...

.NET Aspire is a cloud-native application stack designed to simplify the development of distributed systems in .NET. Introduced at Microsoft's 2024 Build developer conference, it provides a set of ...