{"id":7467,"date":"2022-02-14T13:25:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T13:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostingseekers.com\/blog\/?p=7467"},"modified":"2025-03-06T12:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:06:48","slug":"happy-20th-to-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostingseekers.com\/blog\/happy-20th-to-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 20th to .NET"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 13, 2022, Dot Net celebrated its 20th Anniversary.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

20 years ago, Visual Studio launched the first version of the .NET platform. It is a software framework developed by Microsoft that primarily runs on Microsoft windows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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.NET Community Celebration<\/b><\/h2>\n

Over five million developers now use .NET hence it\u2019s a big celebration for all. According to the Stack Overflow\u2019s survey, Dot Net is the most amazing and loved framework by developers for three years in a row \u2013 2019,2020, 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CNCF has announced that the .NET repository holds its position in the top 30 highest velocity open-source projects on GitHub since 2017, it is due to the people actively making the platform better every day. Community contribution also has a direct impact on performance, with .NET having topped the TechEmpower performance benchmark for years. The community has successfully built hundreds and thousands of packages of NuGet. The .NET ecosystem partners have made thousands of components and tools available to use. Even hundreds of .NET user groups are helping local communities to learn .NET all across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a020 Years of Innovation\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

Microsoft has a deep developers’ root. It started from DOS and BASIC, and by the 90\u2019s company has a developer’s tools portfolio that includes different tools and languages for building various applications. Each tool is developed to solve different problems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft made a major transformation towards open source and yet .NET was at the forefront. By 2012, the company had a completely open-sourced ASP.NET MVC web framework and was accepting contributions. Now, .NET is not just limited to Windows, but the company has built strong relationships with companies like Red Hat and IBM to bring .NET to RHEL, IBM Z, and IBM LinuxONE.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Miles to go\u2026.<\/b><\/h3>\n

The company has just released .NET 6 in November 2021 and is building .NET 7 at full speed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All the best to the team!<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you enjoyed reading this news, you are surely going to cherish these too \u2013<\/em><\/h4>\n