Versions In Different Technologies

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 (Core)

Version	Release date	Released with	Latest update	Latest update date	Support ends[24]	Support Lifetime
Old version, no longer maintained: .NET Core 1.0	June 27, 2016[25]	Visual Studio 2015 Update 3	1.0.16	May 14, 2019	June 27, 2019	3 years
Old version, no longer maintained: .NET Core 1.1	November 16, 2016[26]	Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.0	1.1.13	May 14, 2019	June 27, 2019	2.5 years
Old version, no longer maintained: .NET Core 2.0	August 14, 2017[15]	Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3	2.0.9	July 10, 2018	October 1, 2018	1.25 years
Old version, no longer maintained: .NET Core 2.1	May 30, 2018[16]	Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7	2.1.30 (LTS)	August 19, 2021	August 21, 2021	3.25 years
Old version, no longer maintained: .NET Core 2.2	December 4, 2018[17]	Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.0	2.2.8	November 19, 2019	December 23, 2019	0.9 years
Old version, no longer maintained: .NET Core 3.0	September 23, 2019[27]	Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.3	3.0.3	February 18, 2020	March 3, 2020	0.5 years
Old version, no longer maintained: .NET Core 3.1	December 3, 2019[28]	Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.4	3.1.32 (LTS)	December 13, 2022	December 13, 2022	3 years
Old version, no longer maintained: .NET 5	November 10, 2020[29]	Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.8	5.0.17	May 10, 2022	May 10, 2022	1.5 years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Old version, no longer maintained: .NET 7	November 8, 2022[22]	Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.4	7.0.19	May 14, 2024	May 14, 2024	1.5 years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
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

Date	Version	Remarks	New ASP.NET related features
January 16, 2002	1.0	First version released together with Visual Studio .NET	Developers are no longer forced to use Server.CreateObject(...), so early-binding and type safety are possible. Based on Windows programming; the developer can make use of DLL class libraries and other features of the Web server to build more robust applications that do more than simply rendering HTML (e.g., exception handling) Object-oriented Web application development supporting inheritance, polymorphism and other standard OOP features
April 24, 2003	1.1	released together with Windows Server 2003 released together with Visual Studio .NET 2003	Mobile controls Automatic input validation
November 7, 2005	2.0	codename Whidbey released together with Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Web Developer Express and SQL Server 2005	Login controls Themes Skins Web parts Personalization services Full pre-compilation New localization technique Support for 64-bit processors Provider class model Master pages New data controls (GridView, FormView, DetailsView) New technique for declarative data access (SqlDataSource, ObjectDataSource, XmlDataSource controls) Navigation controls
November 21, 2006	3.0	Released with Windows Vista	Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Windows Communication Foundation, which can use ASP.NET to host services Windows CardSpace, which uses ASP.NET for login roles
November 19, 2007	3.5	Released with Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Server 2008	Support for HTTP pipelining and syndication feeds. WCF support for RSS, JSON, POX and Partial Trust All the .NET Framework 3.5 changes, like LINQ etc. ASP.NET AJAX included as part of the framework New data controls (ListView, DataPager)
August 11, 2008	3.5 Service Pack 1	Released with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1	Incorporation of ASP.NET Dynamic Data Support for controlling browser history in an ASP.NET AJAX application Ability to combine multiple JavaScript files into one file for more efficient downloading New namespaces System.Web.Abstractions and System.Web.Routing
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.
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
October 17, 2013	4.5.1	Released with Visual Studio 2013 [8] for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1	MVC 5: Attribute routing, authentication filters and filter overrides EF 6 SignalR OWIN Web API 2: OAuth 2.0, OData improvements, CORS Bootstrap 3.0
May 5, 2014[9]	4.5.2		Higher reliability HTTP header inspection and modification methods New way to schedule background asynchronous worker tasks
July 20, 2015[9]	4.6	Released[10] with Visual Studio 2015 [11] and EF 7 Previews for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10	More async task-returning APIs HTTP/2 support when running on Windows 10
November 30, 2015[9]	4.6.1
August 2, 2016[9]	4.6.2		Improved async support (output-cache and session providers)
April 11, 2017[9]	4.7	Included in the Windows 10 Creators Update[12]	operating system support for TLS protocols
October 17, 2017[9]	4.7.1	Included in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.[13]	Improved accessibility Value tuple types serialization SHA-2 support
April 30, 2018[9]	4.7.2
August 09, 2022[9]	4.8.1	Released[14]	JIT and NGEN Improvements Updated ZLib Reducing FIPS Impact on Cryptography Accessibility Enhancements for WinForms Service Behavior Enhancements for WCF High DPI Enhancements, UIAutomation Improvements for WPF
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 MVC

The following table list brief history of ASP.NET MVC.

MVC Version	Visual Studio	.NET Framework	Released Date	Features
ASP.NET MVC 1.0	VS2008	.Net 3.5	13-Mar-2009	MVC architecture with webform engine Routing HTML Helpers Ajax Helpers Auto binding
ASP.NET MVC 2.0	VS 2008,	.Net 3.5/4.0	10-Mar-2010	Area Asynchronous controller Html helper methods with lambda expression DataAnnotations attributes Client side validation Custom template Scaffolding
ASP.NET MVC 3.0	VS 2010	.Net 4.0	13-Jan-2011	Unobtrusive javascript validation Razor view engine Global filters Remote validation Dependency resolver for IoC ViewBag
ASP.NET MVC 4.0	VS 2010 SP1, VS 2012	.NET 4.0/4.5	15-Aug-2012	Mobile project template Bundling and minification Support for Windows Azure SDK
ASP.NET MVC 5.0	VS 2013	.NET 4.5	17-oct-2013	Authentication filters Bootstrap support New scaffolding items ASP.Net Identity
ASP.NET MVC 5.2	VS 2013	.NET 4.5	28-Aug-2014	Attribute based routing bug fixes and minor features update
ASP.NET MVC 5.2.9 - Current	VS 2022	.NET 4.5	June-2022

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

C# 3.0

November 2007

.NET Framework 2.0 (Except LINQ)

.NET Framework 3.0 (Except LINQ)
.NET Framework 3.5

April 2010

C# 5.0

August 2012

.NET Framework 4.5

Visual Studio 2012
Visual Studio 2013

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

.NET 6.0
.NET 6.1

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

Entiry Framework

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)