Microsoft has announced C# standardization is now open sourced. The work for C# standards will now happen in the open under the .NET Foundation while the ECMA C# standards committee, TC-49-TG2 is ...

This repo is the official home of .NET on GitHub. It's a great starting point to find many .NET OSS projects from Microsoft and the community, including many that are part of the .NET Foundation. - ...

Open Source .NET Projects Getting Cold Shoulder? Back in June of last year, we featured Jeff Atwood in the pages of Redmond Developer News, profiling him and his popular Coding Horror developer blog ...

Last November Microsoft announced it would open source .NET and release a free, full-featured Visual Studio Community 2013 edition. This followed open sourcing ASP.NET, the "Roslyn" .NET Compiler ...

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 ...

An update to the Mono open-source software development project brings programmers one step closer to writing Microsoft .Net applications for Linux and Unix.

A .NET Foundation open source project has emerged for using C# to write embedded applications, letting developers leverage familiar Microsoft technologies to build software for small devices.

At its Build 2014 conference today, Microsoft announced it is open sourcing its .NET compiler platform “Roslyn” – and then did exactly that, live on stage. Microsoft’s Anders Hejlsberg hit ...