In .NET Framework 3.5 "new language compilers for C# and VB", which are necessary for all the new language features that make up LINQ, were introduced.

The .NET Fundamentals team announced in a blog post last week that support for .NET Framework 4.5.1 and older will be ending in 2016.

In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB ...

Microsoft this week posted new test versions of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0. Visual Studio and .NET came out in Beta 2 versions. Tightly coupled with those public ...

The look and feel of the software has been significantly changed, as well. The new version of the Microsoft .Net runtime platform, version 4.5, features support for Metro-style applications as well.