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.NET (pronounced “dot net”) is Microsoft’s primary development platform. Confusingly, it exists in two versions:
- The “.NET Framework” runs primarily on Windows (including web applications hosted on Microsoft IIS). In April 2019, Microsoft released .NET Framework 4.8, the last version of the framework as a proprietary offering. Only monthly security and reliability bug fixes to that version have been released since then. No further changes to that version are planned.
- “.NET” (formerly “.NET Core”) is an open-source, cross-platform successor to the .NET Framework which runs on Linux, Windows and macOS. It is released under the MIT license.
Both versions execute “managed code” using just-in-time (JIT) compilation on the Common Language Runtime (CLR) independently of the source language, similar to how bytecode is executed by the Java virtual machine (JVM).
Popular languages compileable to managed code are [[r.dev.c-sharp|C#]], F# and Visual Basic .NET.
Popular IDEs are Visual Studio (commercial), Visual Studio Code (free) and JetBrains Rider.
.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI, introduced with .NET (Core) 6) is a cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML), which also supports Android and iOS.

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