Microsoft has released version 8 of the .NET open-source developer platform. It has also launched the first preview of .NET Aspire, which is an opinionated stack made to create cloud-native apps.

When we conducted our first Salary Survey in November 2011, the results were encouraging. Our data indicated that software development in Visual Studio offered great pay, reasonable perks and fairly ...

On November 10, Microsoft released .NET 5.0, the next big release in the .NET developer platform. .NET 5 is key to Microsoft's promise of unifying the different .NET flavors across operating systems, ...

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 ...

Microsoft is porting its server-side .NET stack to Linux and Mac OS X, and is making more of that stack available as open source. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety ...