What is .NET?

.NET is an open-source, cross-platform development platform. A free development environment where developers can build applications.1

Tidbits
  • .NET Core 1.0 was released on June 27, 2016.2
  • In November 2020, Microsoft released .NET 5.0.3 The “Core” branding was abandoned and version 4.0 was skipped to avoid conflation with .NET Framework, of which the latest releases had all used 4.x versioning for all significant (non-bugfix) releases since 2010.4

Intro

.NET in action

Footnotes

  1. Learning center | .NET ↩

  2. .NET Core 1.0 released, now officially supported by Red Hat - Ars Technica ↩

  3. Announcing .NET 5.0 - .NET Blog ↩

  4. .NET - Wikipedia ↩