Why Choose .NET?

Productive

.NET offers advanced language features like generics, LINQ, and asynchronous programming, along with extensive class libraries and multi-language support for developers. The Visual Studio family provides powerful tooling for a seamless development experience, and our free developer program offers all the necessary resources to build and deploy your app on any platform.

.NET is the ultimate platform for developers who value productivity, performance, security, and reliability. Join our community of developers today and unlock your full potential with .NET.

Any app, any platform

With .NET you can target any application type running on any platform. Developers can reuse skills and code across all of them in a familiar environment. That means developers can build apps faster, with less cost.

From mobile applications running on iOS, Android, and Windows, to Enterprise server applications running on Windows Server and Linux, or high-scale microservices running in the cloud, .NET provides a solution for you.

Loved by developers

.NET is a modern, innovative, open source development platform and developers love it. .NET ranked as the #1 most-loved framework on the Stack Overflow Developer Survey for three years in a row (2019, 2020, and 2021).

Performance where it matters

.NET is fast. Really fast! That means applications provide better response times and require less compute power.

The popular TechEmpower benchmark compares web application frameworks with tasks like JSON serialization, database access, and server side template rendering - .NET performs faster than any other popular framework.

Trusted and secure

The .NET platform is officially supported by Microsoft and trusted by thousands of companies and millions of developers. Microsoft takes security very seriously and releases updates quickly when threats are discovered.

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Large ecosystem

With over 5,000,000 .NET developers worldwide, you can leverage the large ecosystem by incorporating libraries from the NuGet package manager and the Visual Studio Marketplace. Find answers to technical challenges from the community, our MVPs, and our large support organization.

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Open source

The .NET Foundation is an independent non-profit supporting the innovative, commercially friendly, open source .NET ecosystem. .NET has over 100,000 contributions from developers from over 3,700 companies outside of Microsoft.

In addition to the community and Microsoft, Technical Steering Group members, Google, JetBrains, Red Hat, Samsung and Unity are guiding the future of the .NET platform.

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Our customers

Customers all over the world, in many different industries, rely on .NET for their business.

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