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

.NET 11 Release Candidate 2 is now available. This is our second release candidate, which comes with a go-live support license so you can confidently use this release for your production applications.

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 ...

In C++/WinRT, Windows Runtime classes are exposed to the outside world through the projection, but internally they are represented by their implementation type. Since the outside world sees only the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have noted in the past that x86-32 and x86-64 versions of Windows are careful to start each function with a patch point. But what about AArch64 (known in Windows as arm64)? Windows also inserts ...

In a reminiscence about product support stories, a now-retired colleague related a story of a call that they took when working the product support phone lines for Microsoft FrontPage, a Web site ...

CMake Tools 1.24 includes several reliability fixes and productivity improvements. You can run tests from the editor, save preset-backed cache edits as user overrides, and keep source-file lists up to ...