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.NET

Free. Cross-platform. Open source.
A developer platform for building all your apps.

Supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS

Web

Build web apps and services for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Docker.

Use a single codebase to build native mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows.

Create beautiful and compelling desktop apps for Windows and macOS.

Create independently deployable microservices that run on Docker containers.

Develop 2D and 3D games for the most popular desktops, phones, and consoles.

Add vision algorithms, speech processing, predictive models, and more to your apps.

Consume existing cloud services, or create and deploy your own.

Make IoT apps, with native support for the Raspberry Pi and other single-board computers.

You can write your .NET apps in C#, F#, or Visual Basic.

Your skills, code, and favorite libraries apply anywhere you use .NET.

You can learn more about what .NET can do with these free videos.

.NET is open source and we are very thankful for the many contributions it receives from the community.

Our step-by-step tutorial will help you get .NET running on your computer.

Supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS