Microsoft says Agent Framework 1.0 is the production-ready release, with stable APIs and long-term support for both .NET and Python. The framework is presented as a unified successor path that builds ...

With recent advances in agentic AI, Microsoft is revamping its related dev tooling, combining the capabilities of the discrete properties Semantic Kernel and AutoGen to offer the new open-source ...

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Microsoft has announced that the classic .NET Framework version 3.5 will no longer be part of the operating system setup in Windows 11 starting in 2026. Previously, .NET Framework 3.5 was an optional ...

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 ...