Microsoft .NET celebrates its 20th anniversary
This week, Microsoft.NET is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the.NET framework. Microsoft is commemorating the 20 years since the initial release of Visual Studio.NET by holding a month-long celebration and looking back on the prior 20 years. More than five million developers utilize the.NET platform, which was developed in DOS and BASIC.
Microsoft recently released.NET 6 in November 2021 and is currently developing.NET 7, the first preview of which was made available this week. To learn more about the Microsoft.NET platform and what Microsoft has in store for the platform’s 20th anniversary over the next 30 days, visit the official developer blog on the Microsoft website by clicking the link below.
Microsoft .NET 20th Anniversary
In the video below, hosts Scott Hansel man and Scott Hunter, the.NET team, and special guests discuss the history of Microsoft.NET as part of a celebration of the development platform’s 20th birthday.
“According to Stack Overflow’s developer survey, it’s astounding that a 20-year-old platform has now been the most favoured framework among developers for three years in a row, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Additionally, since 2017, CNCF has recognized.NET repositories as among the top 30 most active open-source projects on GitHub, which is a credit to everyone working hard to improve the platform on a daily basis.
Performance has also been significantly improved by community contributions, with.NET routinely surpassing competing platforms in TechEmpower benchmark testing. Numerous.NET ecosystem partners provide tens of thousands of components and tools, thousands of.NET user groups help local communities learn.NET, and hundreds of thousands of community-created packages are available on NuGet.
“The growth of the internet made it easier for everyone to share information.
In reaction to the technological trend toward distributed systems that communicated through the internet, NET was created. a number of interoperable libraries and APIs, a single runtime, and numerous languages.
