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.NET

Developers

.NET Foundation and the open-source community

Release

June 27, 2016;10 years ago (2016-06-27)

/ 13 October 2026;28 days ago (13 October 2026)

Written in

C#, C++ and C

Operating system

Cross-platform: Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS

Platform

IA-32, x86-64, 64-bit ARM, Power ISA (ppc64le), IBM Z and LinuxONE (s390x)

Predecessor

Website

github.com/dotnet/runtime .NET Core 2.1 was released on May 30, 2018. NET Core 2.2 was released on December 4, 2018.

.NET Core 3 was released on September 23, 2019. NET Core 3 adds support for Windows desktop application development and significant performance improvements throughout the base library.

In November 2020, Microsoft released .NET 5.0. The "Core" branding was abandoned and version 4.0 was skipped to avoid conflation with .NET Framework, of which the latest releases had all used 4.x versioning for all significant (non-bugfix) releases since 2010.

Version	Release date	Released with	Latest update	Support ends	Support Lifetime
May 14, 2019		June 27, 2019	2.5 years
August 14, 2017	Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3	2.0.9	Unsupported: .NET Core 2.1August 19, 2021	December 23, 2019	0.9 years
September 23, 2019	Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.3	3.0.3	Unsupported: .NET Core 3.1December 13, 2022	May 10, 2022	1.5 years
November 8, 2021	Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.0	6.0.36 (LTS)	Unsupported: .NET 7May 28, 2024	Supported: .NET 9November 10, 2026	2 years
November 11, 2025	Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.0	10.0.13 (LTS)	October 13, 2026	Preview version: .NET 12November 2030 (projected)	3 years (projected)
.NET Native runtime optimized to be integrated into AOT compiled native binaries. As an implementation of CLI's Standard Libraries, CoreFX shares a subset of ↑ The prefix "Ryu" is the Japanese word for "dragon" (竜, ryū), and is a reference to the book Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (commonly known as the dragon book, from an early cover design), as well as to a character from the video game Street Fighter. References edit ↑ "Download .NET 10.0 (Linux, macOS, and Windows)". Microsoft. Retrieved October 5, 2026. ↑ "core/LICENSE.TXT". GitHub. Archived from the original on July 16, 2021. Retrieved June 4, 2018. ↑ "Microsoft Delivers First .NET Platform Developer Tools for Building Web Services". July 11, 2000. Retrieved November 5, 2023. 1 2 "Why a .NET Development Company Could Be the Perfect Boost \| Pangea.ai". www.pangea.ai. Retrieved December 8, 2022. ↑ "dotnet/corefx". GitHub. Archived from the original on July 3, 2018. Retrieved November 16, 2014. ↑ Foley, Mary Jo (June 27, 2016). "Microsoft showcases SQL Server, .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux deliverables". ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on October 26, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2024. ↑ "Announcing .NET Core 2.1". .NET Blog. Microsoft. May 30, 2018. Archived from the original on December 25, 2019. Retrieved October 17, 2021. 1 2 "Microsoft .NET and .NET Core - Microsoft Lifecycle". learn.microsoft.com. Microsoft. Archived from the original on December 14, 2024. Retrieved December 22, 2024. ↑ "Announcing .NET Core 1.1". .NET Blog. Microsoft. November 16, 2016. Archived from the original on May 25, 2022. Retrieved November 30, 2019. ↑ "Announcing .NET 6 — The Fastest .NET Yet". .Net Blog. November 8, 2021. Archived from the original on November 11, 2025. Retrieved November 11, 2025. ↑ "Announcing .NET 9". .Net Blog. November 12, 2024. Archived from the original on November 11, 2025. Retrieved November 11, 2025. 1 2 Kang, M. "Is .NET Core Runtime backwards compatible with previous releases?". Stack Overflow. ...NET Core runtime updates are compatible within a major version 'band' such as 1.x and 2.x. [...] ".NET Core 2.1" refers to the .NET Core Runtime version number. The .NET Core Runtime has a major/minor/patch approach to versioning that follows semantic versioning. ↑ "Alpine 3.10.0 released \| Alpine Linux". alpinelinux.org. Retrieved June 9, 2020. ↑ ".NET framework supports different programming languages". Archived from the original on January 23, 2022. Retrieved April 21, 2022. ↑ Carter, Phillip; Knezevic, Zlatko (April 2016). ".NET Core – .NET Goes Cross-Platform with .NET Core". MSDN Magazine. Microsoft. Archived from the original on July 10, 2018. Retrieved July 9, 2018. ↑ ".NET Core 2.1, 3.1, and .NET 5.0 updates are coming to Microsoft Update". .NET Blog. December 3, 2020. Archived from the original on December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 15, 2020. ↑ "Why RyuJIT? How was the name chosen?". nuWave eSolutions Development Team Blog. November 25, 2014. Archived from the original on October 4, 2016. Retrieved June 21, 2016. ↑ "Intro to .NET Native and CoreRT". GitHub. April 23, 2016. Archived from the original on June 1, 2020. Retrieved July 9, 2018. ↑ Wang, Abel (September 9, 2020). What is the dotnet bot? (Podcast). Microsoft. Event occurs at 4 seconds in. Archived from the original on March 8, 2023. Retrieved March 9, 2021. Further reading edit Price, Mark J. (2021). C# 10 and .NET 6 – Modern Cross-Platform Development. Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1801077361. Price, Mark J. (2017). C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development. Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1788398077. Zimarev, Alexey (2019). Hands-On Domain-Driven Design with .NET Core. Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1788834094. External links edit Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: .NET Development Foundation Wikiversity has learning resources about Introduction to .NET List Category

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Video games	Allegiance Zork
Programming languages	Bosque C# Dafny F# F* GW-BASIC IronPython IronRuby Lean P Power Fx PowerShell Project Verona Q# Small Basic Online TypeScript Visual Basic
Frameworks, development tools	.NET .NET Framework .NET Gadgeteer .NET MAUI .NET Micro Framework AirSim ASP.NET ASP.NET AJAX ASP.NET Core ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET Razor ASP.NET Web Forms Avalonia Babylon.js BitFunnel Blazor C++/WinRT CCF ChakraCore CLR Profiler Dapr DeepSpeed DiskSpd Dryad Dynamic Language Runtime eBPF on Windows Electron Entity Framework Fluent Design System Fluid Framework Infer.NET LightGBM Managed Extensibility Framework Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout Microsoft C++ Standard Library Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Microsoft Design Language Microsoft Detours Microsoft Enterprise Library Microsoft SEAL mimalloc Mixed Reality Toolkit ML.NET mod_mono Mono MonoDevelop MSBuild MsQuic Neural Network Intelligence npm NuGet OneFuzz Open Management Infrastructure Open Neural Network Exchange Open Service Mesh Open XML SDK Orleans Playwright ProcDump ProcMon Python Tools for Visual Studio R Tools for Visual Studio RecursiveExtractor Roslyn Sandcastle SignalR StyleCop SVNBridge T2 Temporal Prover Text Template Transformation Toolkit TLA+ Toolbox U-Prove vcpkg Virtual File System for Git Voldemort VoTT Vowpal Wabbit Windows App SDK Windows Communication Foundation Windows Driver Frameworks KMDF UMDF Windows Forms Windows Presentation Foundation Windows Template Library Windows UI Library WinJS WinObjC WiX XDP for Windows XSP xUnit.net Z3 Theorem Prover
Operating systems	MS-DOS (v1.25, v2.0 & v4.0) Barrelfish SONiC Azure Linux
Other	ChronoZoom Extensible Storage Engine FlexWiki FourQ Gollum Project Mu ReactiveX SILK TLAPS TPM 2.0 Reference Implementation Windows Subsystem for Linux

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