Today marks 20 years since Visual Studio .NET launched and the first version of the .NET platform was released. We’re celebrating all month long!
Today marks 20 years since Visual Studio. NET launched and the first version of the. NET platform was released (or should I say, unleashed) to the world. We’re celebrating all month long and we encourage you to tune into a special celebration broadcast, tomorrow, February 14,9:00am Pacific Time on www.dot.net. Share your stories on Twitter with #dotNETLovesMe, show off your memorabilia, and download some digital swag. Today, over five million developers use. NET and this is a celebration of all of you. It’s amazing that a 20-year-old platform has been the most loved framework by developers for three years in a row now – 2019,2020,2021, according to Stack Overflow’s developer survey. And CNCF has recognized. NET repositories in the top 30 highest velocity open-source projects on GitHub since 2017, a testament to all the people actively making the platform better every day. Contributions from the community have also had a direct impact on performance, with. NET topping the TechEmpower performance benchmarks for years. There are hundreds of thousands of packages on NuGet built by the community, thousands of components and tools available from. NET ecosystem partners, and hundreds of. NET user groups worldwide helping local communities learn. NET. The. NET platform would not be where it is today without all of you. Microsoft has always had deep developer roots. It was born from DOS and BASIC, and by the 90’s we had a large developer tools portfolio, with many different tools and languages for building many kinds of applications. Each tool was good at solving different problems. However, applications had difficulty communicating across them, particularly across machine boundaries.
