Hour 21C# and the .NET Core

Microsoft’s .NET framework, and its successor .NET Core, are some of the most important technologies for developing applications and web services. Now almost 20 years old, .NET continues to evolve, incorporating new standards that allow developers to create full-featured Windows applications; version 4.8 was released in 2019 in parallel with Visual Studio 2019. .NET is not new technology, but it provides a way to approach new technology. .NET consists of today’s software and hardware tools as well as tomorrow’s more advanced ones. Microsoft’s .NET development environment, Visual Studio, was introduced in the last hour. With it, you can create programs in a variety of languages, including C#, which will be touched ...

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