.NET (dotnet)
Microsoft originally developed the .NET Framework for Windows applications. It's unmaintained since 2022. Their renamed the core module to .NET (dotnet) and made it open-source and cross-platform.
Latest notable version are:
- .NET 9.0 (2024)
- .NET Framework 4.8.1 (2022)
📚 Installing .NET components is easy from Visual Studio.
To compile old applications, you can use Azure cloud like in this project, or you can install Visual Studio Community and selecting:
- 🔦 Nuget
- 🤖 Msbuild
- 🗺️ .NET X.0 Runtime
- 🪦 .NET Framework 4.X SDK
- 🪨 .NET Framework 4.x targeting pack
👻 To-do 👻
Stuff that I found, but never read/used yet.
- nuget (use latest)
PS> cd 'C:\path\to\project'
PS> & 'C:\path\to\nuget' restore '.\XXX.sln' -Verbosity Detailed -NonInteractive
PS> & 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64\msbuild.exe' /nologo /nr:false