Microsoft last week set the record straight that Web Forms, part of ASP.NET from the old .NET Framework, isn't going away in Visual Studio 2022, though it recommends Blazor as a .NET 6 alternative. It ...

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We all remember Silverlight, Microsoft’s answer to Adobe’s Flash. The remnant of an ambitious plan to have .Net code running everywhere, it mixed the familiar C# and XAML with browsers. The result was ...

The lightweight .NET web framework has arrived in a stable 1.0 release, ready to help build front ends and RESTful APIs for cloud applications. Microsoft’s opening up of .NET allowed the metaphorical ...

In context: The .NET Framework technology has been part of the Windows platform since the NT 4.0/XP era, providing developers with an integrated environment (class library, language interoperability, ...

None of the .NET-based GUI frameworks presented so far in this series can be used in a web browser. When asked what Microsoft offers for browser applications, one could now give a general answer with ...