At its Build developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced a slew of new features for its .NET platform. With over 1.8 billion installs and 6 million professional developers ...

The new just-in-time compiler is codenamed "RyuJIT."("Ryujin" is the deity of the sea in Japanese mythology.) In a September 30 blog post on the .Net Framework blog, Microsoft execs noted there's ...

It all started with the .NET Compiler Platform -- or, "Roslyn" -- a year ago, and from there, Microsoft has opened up the whole of the project's development to the open source community. On Monday, ...

Now a recently unveiled Roslyn-based compiler project named Peachpie allows PHP to be compiled into portable class libraries and executed in the .Net framework.

Microsoft's new, 64-bit Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler has reached the next milestone in its development, with the release of the second Community Technology Preview (CTP). CTP 2 of RyuJIT was announced ...

A feature added to a compiler in Visual Studio .NET to improve the security of Visual C++ .NET itself introduces the type of vulnerability -- a buffer overflow -- that it was designed to protect ...

Current projects include .Net API for Hadoop WebClient, ASP.Net Web API, Entity Framework, and Xamarin.Mobile.

The .NET Foundation has announced the release of a new project called LLILC (pronounced "lilac"). The project, initiallycontributed by Microsoft, aims to provide a new LLVM-based native code compiler ...