Note: this article is published on 01/18/20213.
This article includes the versions of
- .Net Framework
- .Net (Core)
- Angular
- ASP.NET --- this includes the related .Net features.
- ASP.NET Core
- ASP.NET MVC
- Azure
- C#
- Entity Framework
- IIS
- SQL Server
- Web API
.NET Framework version history - Wikipedia

.NET Framework - Wikipedia

.Net (Core)
| Version | Release date | Released with | Latest update | Latest update date | Support ends[24] | Support Lifetime |
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| Old version, no longer maintained: .NET Core 1.0 | June 27, 2016[25] | Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 | 1.0.16 | May 14, 2019 | June 27, 2019 | 3 years |
| Old version, no longer maintained: .NET Core 1.1 | November 16, 2016[26] | Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.0 | 1.1.13 | May 14, 2019 | June 27, 2019 | 2.5 years |
| Old version, no longer maintained: .NET Core 2.0 | August 14, 2017[15] | Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 | 2.0.9 | July 10, 2018 | October 1, 2018 | 1.25 years |
| Old version, no longer maintained: .NET Core 2.1 | May 30, 2018[16] | Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 | 2.1.30 (LTS) | August 19, 2021 | August 21, 2021 | 3.25 years |
| Old version, no longer maintained: .NET Core 2.2 | December 4, 2018[17] | Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.0 | 2.2.8 | November 19, 2019 | December 23, 2019 | 0.9 years |
| Old version, no longer maintained: .NET Core 3.0 | September 23, 2019[27] | Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.3 | 3.0.3 | February 18, 2020 | March 3, 2020 | 0.5 years |
| Old version, no longer maintained: .NET Core 3.1 | December 3, 2019[28] | Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.4 | 3.1.32 (LTS) | December 13, 2022 | December 13, 2022 | 3 years |
| Old version, no longer maintained: .NET 5 | November 10, 2020[29] | Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.8 | 5.0.17 | May 10, 2022 | May 10, 2022 | 1.5 years |
| Older version, yet still maintained: .NET 6 | November 8, 2021[21] | Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.0 | 6.0.31 (LTS) | May 28, 2024 | November 12, 2024 | 3 years |
| Old version, no longer maintained: .NET 7 | November 8, 2022[22] | Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.4 | 7.0.19 | May 14, 2024 | May 14, 2024 | 1.5 years |
| Current stable version: .NET 8 | November 14, 2023[23] | Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.8 | 8.0.6 (LTS) | May 28, 2024 | November 10, 2026 | 3 years |
| Latest preview version of a future release: .NET 9 | November 2024 (projected) | 9.0.0-preview.4 | May 21, 2024 | May 2026 (projected) | 1.5 years (projected) | |
| Future release: .NET 10 | November 2025 (projected) | (will be LTS) | November 2028 (projected) | 3 years (projected) |

Angular Versions ---Angular (web framework) - Wikipedia
| Version | Release date | New features | hideNotes |
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| Angular 18 | May 22, 2024 | Experimental zoneless change detection support and server-side rendering improvements. | |
| Angular 17 | November 8, 2023 | Application builder, a new syntax for control flow, and a re-worked learning and documentation website. | |
| Angular 16 | 3 May 2023 | Partial hydration for Angular Universal's Server-side rendering, experimental Jest support, and Esbuild-based build system for development servers. | |
| Angular 15 | November 18, 2022 | ||
| Angular 14 | 2 June 2022 | Typed forms, standalone components, and new primitives in the Angular CDK (component dev kit). | |
| Angular 13 | 4 November 2021 | ||
| Angular 12 | 12 May 2021 | Deprecated support for Internet Explorer 11. | |
| Angular 11 | 11 November 2020 | ||
| Angular 10 | 24 June 2020 | New Date Range Picker (Material UI library). | |
| Angular 9 | 6 February 2020 | Improved build times, enabling AOT on by default | |
| Angular 8 | 28 May 2019 | Differential loading for all application code, Dynamic imports for lazy routes, Web workers, TypeScript 3.4 support, and Angular Ivy as an opt-in preview. | |
| Angular 7 | 18 October 2018 | Updates regarding Application Performance, Angular Material & CDK, Virtual Scrolling, Improved Accessibility of Selects. Support for Content Projection using web standard for custom elements, and dependency updates regarding Typescript 3.1, RxJS 6.3 and Node.js 10. | |
| Angular 6 | 4 May 2018 | ||
| Angular 5 | 1 November 2017 | Support for progressive web apps, a build optimizer and improvements related to Material Design. | |
| Angular 4.3 | New router life cycle events for Guards and Resolvers. | Minor release, meaning that it contains no breaking changes and that it is a drop-in replacement for Angular 4.x.x. | |
| Angular 4 | 23 March 2017 | Backward compatible with Angular 2. | |
| Angular 2 | 14 September 2016 |
ASP.NET - Wikipedia
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Version |
Remarks |
New ASP.NET related features |
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January 16, 2002 |
1.0 |
First version released together with Visual Studio .NET |
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April 24, 2003 |
1.1 |
released together with Windows Server 2003 released together with Visual Studio .NET 2003 |
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November 7, 2005 |
2.0 |
codename Whidbey released together with Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Web Developer Express and SQL Server 2005 |
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November 21, 2006 |
3.0 |
Released with Windows Vista |
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November 19, 2007 |
3.5 |
Released with Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Server 2008 |
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August 11, 2008 |
3.5 Service Pack 1 |
Released with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 |
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April 12, 2010 |
4.0 |
Released with Visual Studio 2010 Parallel extensions and other .NET Framework 4 features |
The two new properties added in the Page class are MetaKeyword and MetaDescription. |
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August 15, 2012 |
4.5 |
Released with Visual Studio 2012 and Windows Server 2012 for Windows 8 Parallel extensions and other .NET Framework 4.5 features |
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October 17, 2013 |
4.5.1 |
Released with Visual Studio 2013[8] for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 |
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May 5, 2014[9] |
4.5.2 |
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July 20, 2015[9] |
4.6 |
Released[10] with Visual Studio 2015[11] and EF 7 Previews for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 |
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November 30, 2015[9] |
4.6.1 |
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August 2, 2016[9] |
4.6.2 |
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April 11, 2017[9] |
4.7 |
Included in the Windows 10 Creators Update[12] |
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October 17, 2017[9] |
4.7.1 |
Included in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.[13] |
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April 30, 2018[9] |
4.7.2 |
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August 09, 2022[9] |
4.8.1 |
Released[14] |
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November 18, 2015 |
5 RC1 |
This version was later separated from ASP.NET and brought into a new project called ASP.NET Core, whose versioning started at 1.0.[15] |
An entirely new project with different development tenets and goals |

ASP.NET Core - Wikipedia

ASP.NET MVC
The following table list brief history of ASP.NET MVC.
| MVC Version | Visual Studio | .NET Framework | Released Date | Features |
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| ASP.NET MVC 1.0 | VS2008 | .Net 3.5 | 13-Mar-2009 |
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| ASP.NET MVC 2.0 | VS 2008, | .Net 3.5/4.0 | 10-Mar-2010 |
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| ASP.NET MVC 3.0 | VS 2010 | .Net 4.0 | 13-Jan-2011 |
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| ASP.NET MVC 4.0 | VS 2010 SP1, VS 2012 |
.NET 4.0/4.5 | 15-Aug-2012 |
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| ASP.NET MVC 5.0 | VS 2013 | .NET 4.5 | 17-oct-2013 |
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| ASP.NET MVC 5.2 | VS 2013 | .NET 4.5 | 28-Aug-2014 |
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| ASP.NET MVC 5.2.9 - Current | VS 2022 | .NET 4.5 | June-2022 |
Azure - Wikipedia
History and timeline
In 2005, Microsoft took over Groove Networks, and Bill Gates made Groove's founder Ray Ozzie one of his 5 direct reports as one of 3 chief technology officers. Ozzie met with Amitabh Srivastava, which let Srivastava change course. They convinced Dave Cutler to postpone his retirement and their teams developed a cloud operating system.
- October 2008 (PDC LA) – Announced the Windows Azure Platform.
- March 2009 – Announced SQL Azure Relational Database.
- November 2009 – Updated Windows Azure CTP, Enabled full trust, PHP, Java, CDN CTP and more.
- February 1, 2010 – Windows Azure Platform commercially available.
- June 2010 – Windows Azure Update, .NET Framework 4, OS Versioning, CDN, SQL Azure Update.
- October 2010 (PDC) – Platform enhancements, Windows Azure Connect, improved Dev / IT Pro Experience.
- December 2011 – Traffic manager, SQL Azure reporting, HPC scheduler.
- June 2012 – Websites, Virtual machines for Windows and Linux, Python SDK, new portal, locally redundant storage.
- April 2014 – Windows Azure renamed Microsoft Azure, ARM Portal introduced at Build 2014.
- July 2014 – Azure Machine Learning public preview.
- November 2014 – Outage affecting major websites including MSN.com.
- September 2015 – Azure Cloud Switch introduced as a cross-platform Linux distribution. Currently known as SONiC
- December, 2015 – Azure ARM Portal (codename "Ibiza") released.
- March, 2016 – Azure Service Fabric is Generally Available (GA)
- September 2017 – Microsoft Azure gets a new logo and a Manifesto
- July 16, 2018 – Azure Service Fabric Mesh public preview
- September 24, 2018 – Microsoft Azure IoT Central is Generally Available (GA)
- October 10, 2018 – Microsoft joins the Linux-oriented group Open Invention Network
- April 17, 2019 – Azure Front Door Service is now available.
- March 2020 – Microsoft said that there was a 775% increase in Microsoft Teams usage in Italy due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company estimates there are now 44 million daily active users of Teams worldwide.
- January 17, 2023 – Azure OpenAI Service is Generally Available (GA)
C# Versions from Wiki
| Version | Date | .NET | Visual Studio | |
| C# 1.0 | January 2002 | .NET Framework 1.0 | Visual Studio .NET 2002 | |
| C# 1.1 C# 1.2 |
April 2003 | .NET Framework 1.1 | Visual Studio .NET 2003 | |
| C# 2.0 | November 2005 | .NET Framework 2.0 .NET Framework 3.0 |
Visual Studio 2005 Visual Studio 2008 |
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| C# 3.0 | November 2007 | .NET Framework 2.0 (Except LINQ)
.NET Framework 3.0 (Except LINQ) |
Visual Studio 2008 | |
| C# 4.0 | April 2010 | .NET Framework 4 | Visual Studio 2010 | |
| C# 5.0 | August 2012 | .NET Framework 4.5 | Visual Studio 2012 Visual Studio 2013 |
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| C# 6.0 | July 2015 | .NET Framework 4.6 .NET Core 1.0 .NET Core 1.1 |
Visual Studio 2015 | |
| C# 7.0 | March 2017 | .NET Framework 4.7 | Visual Studio 2017 version 15.0 | |
| C# 7.1 | August 2017 | .NET Core 2.0 | Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 | |
| C# 7.2 | November 2017 | Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 | ||
| C# 7.3 | May 2018 | .NET Core 2.1 .NET Core 2.2 .NET Framework 4.8 |
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 | |
| C# 8.0 | September 2019 | .NET Core 3.0 .NET Core 3.1 |
Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 | |
| C# 9.0 | November 2020 | .NET 5.0 | Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 | |
| C# 10.0 | November 2021 |
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Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0 | |
| C# 11.0 | November 2022 | .NET 7 | Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4 | |
| C# 12.0 | Novermber 2023 | .NET 8 | Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 |
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 2006 | First preview of Entity Framework released |
| 2008 | EF 1.0 released as part of .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 |
| 2009 | Programming Entity Framework (by Julie Lerman) published |
| 2010 | EF 4.0 released (POCO, foreign keys, lazy loading, templates) Magic Unicorn Edition released Programming Entity Framework: Code First (by Julie Lerman and Rowan Miller) published |
| 2011 | Programming Entity Framework: DbContext (by Julie Lerman and Rowan Miller) published EF 4.1 released (DbContext, code first) |
| 2012 | EF 4.3 released (migrations) Went open source EF 5.0 released (enums, spatial, TVFs) Move from SQL org to Azure (ASP.NET) |
| 2013 | EF 6.0 released (async, connection resiliency, custom conventions, sprocs) |
| 2014 | EF 6.1 released Began work on EF7 |
| 2016 | EF7 renamed to EF Core EF Core 1.0 released (mixed-eval, shadow state properties, unique constraints, sequences, batching, attach graph APIs) EF Core 1.1 released (memory-optimized tables) |
| 2017 | EF Core 2.0 released (table splitting, owned entities, global query filters, function mapping) EF 6.2 released |
| 2018 | EF Core 2.1 released (lazy loading, value converters, keyless entity types, group by, constructor parameters, seeding) Entity Framework Core in Action (by Jon P Smith) published EF Core 2.2 released (spatial, owned collections, query tags) |
| 2019 | Moved to DevDiv (.NET) org EF Core 3.0 released (Azure Cosmos DB, await foreach, nullable reference types, single server-eval query, interceptors) EF 6.3 released (.NET Core) EF 6.4 released EF Core 3.1 released |
| 2020 | Entity Framework Community Standup premiered EF Core 5.0 released (many-to-many, TPT, collations, TVFs, filtered include, property bags, table rebuilds, exclude from migrations, change-tracking proxies) |
| 2021 | EF Core 6.0 released (perf improvements, compiled models, migration bundles, temporal tables, pre-convention configuration) |
| 2022 | EF Core 7.0 planned (TPC, JSON columns, value objects, bulk updates, templates, sprocs, conventions, trimming support, entity splitting, group by improvements, raw SQL improvements, migrations improvements) |
IIS Versions
- IIS 1.0, Windows NT 3.51 available as a free add-on
- IIS 2.0, Windows NT 4.0
- IIS 3.0, Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3
- IIS 4.0, Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack
- IIS 5.0, Windows 2000
- IIS 5.1, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Media Center Edition
- IIS 6.0, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- IIS 7.0, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, Ultimate Editions)
- IIS 7.5, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
- IIS 8.0, Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
- IIS 8.5, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1
- IIS 10.0, Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10
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