Through the .Net Reference Source project, developers will be able to view and debug the source code with the .Net Framework Reference license in a read-only format.

For an overview about how open source .NET will impact Mono, take a look at de Icaza's "Microsoft Open Sources .NET and Mono" post, which he summed up succinctly: "Like we did in the past with .NET ...

Old languages never die, they just get ported to a new runtime. Here’s a look at a new open source project for .NET that can help modernize Cobol. As much as enterprise IT evolves, we’re left ...

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The .NET nanoFramework picks up where the .NET Micro Framework (NETMF), left off, as that 13-year-old project was last updated some four years ago.. Wikipedia says, "On 23 January 2017, after numerous ...

Microsoft has opened the source code to the .NET Framework libraries under a read-only reference license. Developers who want to check out the source code need only upgrade to the newly released ...

The .NET Framework makes it easy to reverse engineer an existing application. Discover what techniques to use to deter prying eyes from deconstructing your code. A recent project entailed making ...

Microsoft is making source code for the .Net Framework available to interested developers under its Shared Source license, the company announced on October 3. Developers can look, but not modify ...

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

Microsoft's version of the .Net work for FreeBSD will be released under a "shared-source" license that lets researchers see and modify underlying source code but not use it in commercial projects.