When the free Express editions of Visual Studio were first announced, the Microsoft .NET Development Series got quite a few proposals for books aimed at amateur and novice programmers. As Series ...

The software company hopes to woo Microsoft .Net programmers with a new line of design and development tools for the tech giant's own C# language. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

Novell has launched a test release of an open-source project that recreates Microsoft's .Net programming framework on Linux and Unix. Novell inherited the Mono project through its acquisition of ...

Through the looking glass: The .NET framework was originally developed by Microsoft in the early 2000s to simplify software development on Windows. The technology was later ported to other computing ...

The company unveils a test release of Mono, an open-source version of Microsoft's .Net programming framework and tools that's designed for Linux and Unix. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now ...