Most .NET packages have backwards compatibility, so an app asking for the 2.0 framework can usually get by with what's packaged into the latest version: .NET Framework 4.

Intel said Tuesday that a pre-release version of the Microsoft .Net Framework is available for the Itanium 2 micro-architecture.

Even though Microsoft's development focus has shifted to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core initiative -- with the aging, traditional, Windows-only .NET Framework relegated primarily to fixes ...

With this service pack, Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5 also support SQL Server 2008. “Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is more than a service pack.

In the move from the ageing, Windows-only .NET Framework to the new open source, cross-platform .NET Core framework, some technologies weren't invited along for the ride, but open source projects may ...