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 ...

I noted last time that you are not allowed to ask std:: async for an immediate on-thread calculation. The C++ library designers probably chose not to support it because there’s no point: An immediate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Agents are rapidly evolving beyond chat. The first generation of agents waited for a person to send a message. Today, organizations want agents that can monitor work, respond to business events, and ...

C++ repositories can contain millions of lines of code spread across deeply connected source files and headers. Without a reusable index, navigating to definitions, finding references, or searching ...

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 ...