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Microsoft .NET Framework Developer Pack

by Microsoft Corporation · Proprietary

85/100how this is calculated

A technology that supports building and running Windows apps and web services.

Record

Latest version
4.8.1
Release date
09 Aug 2022
Official page
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-framework
Minimum Windows
10.0.0.0
Package identifier
Microsoft.DotNet.Framework.DeveloperPack_4

Official downloads

These URLs are the ones Microsoft Corporation declares in its own manifest. We do not proxy or shorten them, and we do not host a copy.

More than one architecture below. Check which one your Windows is if you are not sure.

Verify the file you downloaded

Run this against the file on disk. If the output does not match the hash below, the file is not what Microsoft Corporation published. Delete it.

Windows · PowerShell

Get-FileHash "NDP481-DevPack-ENU.exe" -Algorithm SHA256

macOS · Linux

shasum -a 256 "NDP481-DevPack-ENU.exe"

Expected output

fd9ae4b63cbc8f7637249c4b29d25281b1f70fbe6d650109dcbf2bdf596cf994

Got a different hash, or one you cannot place? Paste it into the hash checker and it will tell you which program and version it belongs to, past releases included.

Install Microsoft .NET Framework Developer Pack silently

The unattended switch below is the one Microsoft Corporation declares in the installer manifest, not one we guessed by trying flags.

32-bit · publisher-declared

.\NDP481-DevPack-ENU.exe /install /quiet /norestart

Run it from the folder holding the downloaded file, in a terminal opened as administrator when the package installs for all users. Silent means no window and no prompts, so check the exit code rather than waiting for something to appear: 0 is success and 3010 means it worked but wants a reboot.

Silent install commands for every program we index

How we scored this 85 out of 100

SignalFindingPoints
SHA-256 hash published4 of 4 installers ship a SHA-256 hashWithout a published hash there is no way to prove the file you downloaded is the file the publisher built.30 / 30
Binary provenance4 on the publisher's own domainThe strongest signal against a repackaged installer: the file should come from the publisher, not from a mirror nobody vouches for.35 / 35
Served over HTTPS4 of 4 over HTTPSAn installer fetched over plain HTTP can be modified in transit.15 / 15
Release recencylast release about 49 months agoSoftware that has not shipped in years accumulates unpatched vulnerabilities.0 / 15
Licence declaredProprietaryA declared licence tells you what you are actually allowed to do with the software.5 / 5

Is Microsoft .NET Framework Developer Pack safe to download?

Yes, in the sense we can actually verify: the installer downloads from microsoft.com, which is a domain we have tied to Microsoft Corporation.

Every one of the 4 installers on this page comes with the SHA-256 Microsoft Corporation declared, so you do not have to take our word for it: hash the file you downloaded and compare.

What this does not tell you is whether the software itself is any good, or whether you want what it does once installed. A publisher can ship something you would rather not run and the download is still authentic. We answer the question we can measure and leave the other one to you.

If Windows says “Windows protected your PC” when you run it, that is SmartScreen reporting reputation, not a malware verdict — it shows up on perfectly legitimate software from small publishers and on releases that are simply new. The reverse matters more: no warning does not mean the file was checked.

How the 85/100 score is calculated · why the source matters more than the reputation

Install Microsoft .NET Framework Developer Pack with winget

Windows ships with a package manager, and this program is in it. The identifier below is the one Microsoft's repository uses, which is also where the download URL and hash on this page come from.

Install

winget install --id Microsoft.DotNet.Framework.DeveloperPack_4 --exact

Upgrade later

winget upgrade --id Microsoft.DotNet.Framework.DeveloperPack_4

Why --exact: without it winget matches on name as well as identifier, and a search that returns more than one package makes it stop and ask rather than install. Pinning the identifier is what makes the command safe to put in a script.

Not installing anything, or getting an error back? The commands that actually come up covers upgrading everything at once, what --include-unknown is for, and why winget can be missing from a machine that should have it.

Old versions of Microsoft .NET Framework Developer Pack5 with hashes

The version history of Microsoft .NET Framework Developer Pack, each release with the download URL the publisher declared at the time and the SHA-256 to check it against. Useful when an update breaks something and you need to downgrade to a build that worked.

We do not host any of these files and never re-upload them, which is the difference between this and an old-version download site.

4.8

  • ndp48-devpack-enu.exe64-bitofficial URL

    3B375FD01759808843D9D48CB1F2DD50711A14638C03387155471B10D98B6B30

4.7.2

  • ndp472-devpack-enu.exe64-bitofficial URL

    878FDF9F137B1466855DE995C793B466CD50FCCC523D1F41250567973623180C

4.7.1

  • ndp471-devpack-enu.exe64-bitofficial URL

    A70B790DCF7EE4A0CAE65FB82A16FB67FE970EB21B9424C9DA35E1ACAFBC4348

4.7

  • ndp47-devpack-kb3186612-enu.exe64-bitofficial URL

    EFE311D8EA6A597860AF8549B184D837DA79B41F2C2C73D3EBE7386F2635544F

4.6.2

  • ndp462-devpack-kb3151934-enu.exe64-bitofficial URL

    5D1399EABD7B11FAAA8498C9C9112ECDC30DE77B0F427C5FFBCC9A1A426A2F8F

Publishers take old builds offline without warning, so a link here can stop working even though the hash stays correct forever. If you already have the file, the hash is what matters: it tells you whether what you have is what they published.

Every version on record6

Every Microsoft .NET Framework Developer Pack version with a published manifest, newest first. The most recent ones are listed above with their file names and hashes.

  • 4.8.1
  • 4.8
  • 4.7.2
  • 4.7.1
  • 4.7
  • 4.6.2

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More programs we index

Not related to Microsoft .NET Framework Developer Pack — just other entries, each with its own official URL and published hash.

Where our data comes from

Windows manifest
github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/m/Microsoft/DotNet/Framework/DeveloperPack_4/4.8.1