Overview:  Both .NET 6 and .NET 8 are Long-Term Support (LTS) releases, but .NET 8 introduces significant improvements in runtime performance, cloud-native ...

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The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...

All of ASP.NET's security/membership support boils down to generating a cookie that allows the user access to your site's folders. I mentioned SetAuthCookie in a comprehensive look at the ASP.NET ...

The Shared ASP.Net environment is a Windows Server 2016 system running IIS 10. It supports all versions of ASP.Net Core through 10*, all versions of ASP.Net Framework through the final v4.8 release, ...

Microsoft's new .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Standard 2.0 offerings may be generating the most buzz among .NET developers these days, but for many use cases the traditional .NET Framework is still the best ...

ASP.NET has been a workhorse of business software for more than two decades. Banks run their transaction systems on it, insurance companies ...