{"id":873,"date":"2013-06-27T14:50:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T14:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/2013\/06\/27\/get-the-latest-net-bits\/"},"modified":"2021-10-04T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:28:41","slug":"get-the-latest-net-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/get-the-latest-net-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Get the latest .NET Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We maintain a set of pages that make it easier for you to find all the .NET Framework versions, SDKs, and targeting packs that you can take advantage of in your .NET apps, as we mentioned last year on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/dotnet\/archive\/2012\/12\/17\/downloading-the-net-framework-and-visual-studio-express-editions-and-sdks.aspx\">the .NET blog<\/a>. We recently redesigned the pages and added more SDKs for you to download. You may even find some SDKs to try that you didn\u2019t know about.<\/p>\n<p>If you really just want the latest bits, use the following links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=309499\">.NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=306566\">Visual Studio 2013 Preview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/preview.windows.com\/\">Windows 8.1 Preview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ve provided a separate page for each version of Visual Studio, since each version has a different set of capabilities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.com\/vstudio\/dn250998.aspx\">Visual Studio 2013 Preview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.com\/vstudio\/hh487283.aspx\">Visual Studio 2012<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.com\/vstudio\/hh487282.aspx\">Visual Studio 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can now quickly get to the .NET download that you need, based on the Microsoft platform that you want to target. We\u2019ve organized the platforms in a new way, into devices, services, libraries, and .NET Framework (Windows desktop and server) platforms, to make it easier for you to find the downloads you&#8217;re interested in. Here\u2019s an idea of what that page looks like.<\/p>\n<p><ins datetime=\"2013-06-27T14:40\" cite=\"mailto:Richard%20Lander\"><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.com\/vstudio\/dn250998.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image002\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor;margin-right: auto;margin-left: auto;float: none\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image002\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/06\/0284.clip_image002_4FB47A5D.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>These pages are available by the links above. They are also available within Visual Studio, in three different places.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image003\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor;margin-right: auto;margin-left: auto;float: none\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image003\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/06\/5482.clip_image003_48953DE5.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"232\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Project Properties<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image004\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor;margin-right: auto;margin-left: auto;float: none\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image004\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/06\/1373.clip_image004_566783E0.png\" width=\"599\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">New Project<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image005\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor;margin-right: auto;margin-left: auto;float: none\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image005\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/06\/5415.clip_image005_1D50A6DE.png\" width=\"415\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Portable Library Project Properties<\/p>\n<p>You may have read about our use of <a href=\"https:\/\/nuget.org\/\">NuGet<\/a> in our recent post of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/dotnet\/archive\/2013\/06\/26\/announcing-the-net-framework-4-5-1-preview.aspx\">.NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview<\/a>. Our NuGet libraries are a great option for helping you build code that works across Microsoft platforms, since many of them are built as portable class libraries. You can check out the list of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/dotnet\/p\/nugetpackages.aspx\">Microsoft .NET Framework NuGet Packages<\/a><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> that are available for you to use. There\u2019s a lot of them.<\/p>\n<p>Please tell us if there are other SDKs that you&#8217;d like us to add to this page. It\u2019s always possible that we\u2019ve missed something. Please send us your feedback, either in the comments, on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DotNet\">@dotnet<\/a>), on Facebook (<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/dotnet\/\">dotnet<\/a>), or via email (<a href=\"mailto:dotnet@microsoft.com\">dotnet@microsoft.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We maintain a set of pages that make it easier for you to find all the .NET Framework versions, SDKs, and targeting packs that you can take advantage of in your .NET apps, as we mentioned last year on the .NET blog. We recently redesigned the pages and added more SDKs for you to download. 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