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Microsoft ships .NET 10 LTS and Visual Studio 2026, Copilot everywhere

Faster and easier to use but adopting the dev stack not without risks Microsoft has released C# 14 and .NET 10, a long-term ...
Visual Studio Magazine

.NET 10 Arrives with AI Integration, Performance Boosts, and New Tools

Microsoft's .NET 10 release highlights AI integration through the new Microsoft Agent Framework and related extensions, ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hooking ASP.NET Apps into SQL Server 2012

Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database. In my recent article, I showed how to connect .NET 4.0 C# and Visual Basic applications ...
Computerworld

How to create SQL Server connection strings in Visual Studio

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...
Ars Technica

State of Visual Studio/SQL Server/IIS development in Windows on M1 Macs

I have a 2014 15” MacBook Pro that I’m looking to replace sooner or later with an equivalent M1 MacBook Pro (most likely the 14”). However, one big holdup is that for my day job, I run Visual Studio ...
Microsoft

Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform, adds new development capabilities with Visual Studio 2015, .NET 2015 and Visual Studio Online

NEW YORK — Nov. 12, 2014 — On Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. reinforced its commitment to cross-platform developer experiences by open sourcing the full server-side .NET stack and expanding .NET to run on ...