Learn how the new dotnetup tool helps macOS and Linux developers install, manage, and update user-local .NET SDKs and runtimes.

Welcome to our combined .NET servicing updates for October 2026. Let’s get into the latest release of .NET and .NET Framework. Here’s a quick overview of what’s new in our servicing releases: .NET has ...

NET 11 Release Candidate 2 is available with improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, F#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms.

We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Microsoft Desired State Configuration (DSC) v3.3.0. This release delivers three new built-in Windows resources, a new registry-backed adapter, ...

Installing two anti-malware programs on the same system is like hiring two different security companies to patrol your building. If they don’t know about each other, each is going to think the other ...

Windows hot-patching supports x86-32, x86-64, 64-bit ARM, and Itanium, but why not the other architctures like 32-bit ARM, MIPS, Alpha AXP, PowerPC, and SH-3? These architectures fall into two buckets ...

Today we are highlighting improvements across a few key open-source projects many of you already use, as well as updates to Windows ML. To empower developers, we must support the broad range of tools ...

We’ve all experienced this, the desktop application is hanging, the window is greyed out, and we’re just waiting for it to start to respond. Or we’re on a website and are sure that it was going to ...

Agents break the traditional request-and-response paradigm. They are long-running, stream tokens as they work, delegate to subagents, and invoke tools mid-response. Without a shared protocol, each ...

Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows. Mapping them to concepts from C# and the now-defunct C++/CX.