The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...

.NET is a programming framework created by Microsoft that developers can use to create applications more easily. As commenter dwroth aptly put it, "a framework is just a bunch of code that the ...

On VB columnist Joe Kunk shows you how to create and extract "almost" .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4 and standard .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4.5. The ability to compress multiple files from one or ...

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The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 is a highly compatible, in-place update to the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1. The offline package can ...

There is a variety of GUI frameworks for .NET: Microsoft itself offers several alternatives and the agony of choice is now greater than ever, as three external providers are also involved in the ...