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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With .Net, Microsoft plans to sell its ... David Sugar, author of an open-source telephony server software project called Bayonne, will lead the DotGNU effort, which will be hosted at the Savannah ...

The leader of the upstart Mono open-source project was giving .NET developers the ability to use their skills to make programs for Linux, Mac OS X and other operating systems, and Microsoft was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...