In a blog post, Microsoft yesterday announced that starting with Windows 10 October Update the company plans to deliver new updates for .NET Framework via Cumulative Updates channel.

On Windows 10, you can check the version of .NET through File Explorer, Registry, PowerShell, and Command Prompt, and in this guide, I'll show you how to complete this task.

Then, in November 2020, Microsoft deprecated the .NET Framework and released a new version of .NET Core, simply dubbed NET 5, as the main implementation of the platform.

That's why we added a compatibility mode that allows .NET Standard projects to depend on .NET Framework libraries as if they were compiled for .NET Standard. "Of course, this may not work in all cases ...

Microsoft is committing to long-term support of the .NET Framework, so if you have code running on .NET Framework 4.8 it won’t need to be updated until you’re ready to make the shift.