Microsoft has released its new “Roslyn” .NET compiler platform preview as an open source project. That means developers can clone the company’s compiler for C# projects and add their own ...

A requirement for a volunteer developer group to pay license fees or royalties would be enough to end many open source projects, its advocates said. The .Net set of technologies, due late this ...

The award is part of an announced program to recognize outstanding and important efforts in the field of .NET open source development. Here's where it gets interesting. Jeff contends that "open source ...

Microsoft described its original plans as “an ambitious project to bring Hot Reload ... Engineers at Microsoft that have worked on .NET for years with the open source community feel betrayed ...

At its Build developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft today announced the launch of the .NET Foundation. This new independent foundation around the .NET framework, which forms the core of ...

A requirement for a volunteer developer group to pay license fees or royalties would be enough to end many open source projects, its advocates said. The .Net set of technologies, due late this ...

When Miguel de Icaza founded the Mono project in 2004, he was ridiculed. No way would Microsoft allow an open source implementation of its .Net platform to exist, critics said. Even after Mono ...

The company is delivering release candidates of .Net Core 5 and the ASP.Net 5 Web framework for Linux, Windows, and OS X. Introduced as an open source project a year ago, .Net Core is intended to ...

Builders of the Mono open-source development project released an update on Tuesday that will let programmers write Microsoft .Net applications for Linux and Unix operating systems. The goal of the ...