The official website of the .NET developer framework, dotnet.microsoft.com, has been down for several hours. .NET is a free, open-source, cross-platform framework used for building apps and cloud services. Its website provides information about the .NET platform and hosts downloads for the framework.
Some developers rely on the website to automatically download specific versions of the .NET framework for their build and test systems. For instance, if a continuous integration (CI) system points to https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.ps1, it redirects to https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/scripts/v1/dotnet-install.ps1, which is currently inaccessible due to the outage.
Ah good, https://t.co/5tZxTPTb6y is down, which means our whole CI is down (dotnet-install) #dotnet pic.twitter.com/Z8aY6ZpSQL
— Andrew Lock "Sock" (@andrewlocknet) July 1, 2024
Microsoft has acknowledged the outage and is working to restore the site. In the meantime, Microsoft suggests developers use raw GitHub links as a workaround for downloading the necessary scripts.
In the short term you can use these github raw links for the scripts:https://t.co/vsTCek8aTshttps://t.co/Xe98sL0Hkk
— Chet Husk (@ChetHusk) July 1, 2024
We"re working the site outage now.
At Microsoft Build 2024, Microsoft announced several new features and tools to make .NET development faster and easier. The highlight of the announcement was .NET Aspire, a new stack that streamlines development of .NET cloud-native apps and services. .NET Aspire allows developers to easily build distributed apps, including project orchestration, components to integrate with popular services and platforms, service discovery, service defaults, and more. You can learn more about .NET Aspire here.
Update: .NET website is now up and running without any issues.