core Documentation

1. Project Overview & Quickstart (dotnet/core) Copy Chapter

.NET Release Notes

Welcome to the home of .NET release notes and news.

Releases Copy Chapter

Releases under active support or development:

• Release notes
• Binaries and installers
• Installation docs
• dotnet-install scripts

Discussions Copy Chapter

Follow GitHub Discussions, where you will find the latest news on releases, including PSAs and CVEs.

You can subscribe to discussions with the following RSS feeds:

2. Official Technical Reference & Guides (dotnet/core-docs) Copy Chapter

.NET Docs

This repository contains the conceptual documentation for .NET. The .NET documentation site is built from multiple repositories:

• .NET docs
• ASP.NET Core docs
• .NET Desktop workloads docs
• .NET MAUI docs
• Entity Framework docs
• Community toolkit

API reference documentation is published from the following repositories:

• .NET API reference
• .NET MAUI API reference
• Android API reference
• Entity Framework 6/Core API reference
• Roslyn API reference
• Community toolkit API reference

These API reference doc repositories are public. Only some accept issues and pull requests. Others are pass-through repositories because API reference is generated directly from the /// in the product source. Some folders in dotnet-api-docs use the product repository as the source of truth.

The C# language specification documentation comes from the following two repositories:

• C# language design
• C# specification - draft

Our team's tasks are tracked in our project boards. You'll see monthly sprint projects, along with long-running projects for major documentation updates. The projects contain documentation issues across the repositories that build .NET docs. Issues are tracked in the relevant repositories. We have a large community using these resources. We make our best effort to respond to issues in a timely fashion. To create a new issue, click the "Open a documentation issue" button at the bottom of any of our published docs, or choose one of the available templates. The control at the bottom of each article automatically routes you to the correct repo and fills in some relevant information based on the article.

:purple_heart: Contribute Copy Chapter

We welcome contributions to help us improve and complete the .NET docs. This is a very large repo, covering a large area. If this is your first visit, see the Contributor guide for information on working with us. Look for issues labeled help wanted :label: for ideas to get started.

Before submitting a PR with 3rd party dependencies, see our policy on 3rd party dependencies.

We work to merge or close PRs in a timely fashion. We regularly review and approve PRs. We encourage contributors to respond to comments in a similar timely fashion. Many times, reviews identify small changes such as spelling or grammar issues, or word choice. Maintainers can accept those suggestions and merge the PR. In other situations, maintainers ask for more significant changes before a PR is ready to merge. We expect contributors to make those changes. Maintainers will help by answering questions or pointing to other resources, if needed.

We consider PRs to be abandoned when they've had no activity (either commits or discussion) in the past 30 days. Team members will close PRs that have been abandoned. Contributors can reopen and continue to work.

:bookmark_tabs: Code of conduct Copy Chapter

This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant
to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information, see the .NET Foundation: Code of Conduct.

:octocat: GitHub Action workflows Copy Chapter

• : Adds a comment to PRs that were not automated, but rather manually created that target the live branch.
• : Automatically approves and auto-merges PRs originating from the dependabbot[bot].
• : Creates a PR to generate the "What's new" article on the first of every month.
• : The current status for the entire repositories Markdown linter status.
• : Runs various Markdown verifications, beyond the linter, such as ensuring links and redirects are valid.
• : Builds the site for the PR in context, and verifies the build reporting either, success, warnings, or error.
• : Custom .NET build validation, locates code impacted by a PR, and builds.
• : Runs monthly, creating issues on projects that target .NET versions that are out of support.
• : Automatically updates the dependabot configuration weekly, but only if required.
• : Automatically synchronizes issues with Quest (Azure DevOps).
• : Manual bulk import of issues into Quest (Azure DevOps).