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The promised standalone installer for Windows 7 and later was released on 2 May 2017, [103] but it had prerequisites not included with the package. [104] NET Framework 4.7 dropped support for Windows 8 and will only run on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and later. New features in .NET Framework 4.7 include: [105]
Windows Vista is the first client version of Windows that integrated the .NET Framework. On October 3, 2007, Microsoft announced that the source code for .NET Framework 3.5 libraries was to become available under the Microsoft Reference Source License (Ms-RSL [a]). [9]
The .NET platform (pronounced as "dot net") is a free and open-source, managed computer software framework for Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. [4] The project is mainly developed by Microsoft employees by way of the .NET Foundation and is released under an MIT License.
Microsoft continues to promote Enterprise Library for enterprise/line-of-business development, and even many Microsoft products as well as projects within Microsoft IT use it extensively. Starting November 2013, Microsoft fully open-sourced Enterprise Library and all of its application blocks. [16] They now accept community contributions.
a. ^.NET Framework 1.0 is an integral component of Windows XP Media Center Edition and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Installation CDs for the Home edition and the Professional edition of Windows XP SP1, SP2 or SP3 come with .NET Framework 1.0 installation packages.
Microsoft launched VB.NET in 2002 as the successor to its original Visual Basic language, the last version of which was Visual Basic 6.0. Although the ".NET" portion of the name was dropped in 2005, this article uses "Visual Basic [.NET]" to refer to all Visual Basic languages released since 2002, in order to distinguish between them and the ...
Released [10] with Visual Studio 2015 [11] and EF 7 Previews for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10: HTTP/2 support when running on Windows 10; More async task-returning APIs; November 30, 2015 [9] 4.6.1 August 2, 2016 [9] 4.6.2 Improved async support (output-cache and session providers) April 11, 2017 [9]
Windows SDKs are available for free; they were once available on Microsoft Download Center but were moved to MSDN in 2012. A developer might want to use an older SDK for a particular reason. For example, the Windows Server 2003 Platform SDK released in February 2003 was the last SDK to provide full support of Visual Studio 6.0.