Microsoft Releases Source of .NET Base Classes

Disgruntled Fungus writes "A few months ago, we discussed Microsoft's intention to open source the .NET libraries. According to a developer's official blog, the source code is now available. The source to libraries such as System, IO, Windows.Forms, etc. can now be viewed and used for debugging purposes from within Visual Studio. Instructions for doing so have also been provided. The source code has been released with a read-only license and 'does not apply to users developing software for a non-Windows platform that has "the same or substantially the same features or functionality" as the .NET Framework.'"

Yay!

[4D6963]

Can't wait to see the best bits of it on The Daily WTF! \o/

It's in the source!

[nighty5]

Too bad the library is written in VB....

Misread that title

[Fross]

I thought it meant the developer who originally wrote them has been let out of his nice padded room.

Excellent news

[Anonymous Coward]

I think .NET is an excellent framework. - Miguel

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Re:it's not open source

[nschubach]

My question is:

If you see a "bug" in Microsoft's code, can you write a fix for it, date stamp it and sell it to MS as your code with a restrictive license?

Re:The Source for the Runtime is also out.

[aldousd666]

I wondered about that myself, actually. There is nothing that Microsoft distributes or sells that opens gzip or even tarchives for that matter. Nothing on WinInternals (formerly SysInternals) either. It's like they're saying 'here you go you open source freaks you can have this, but figure out how to open it yourself. We know you already have all the gtools installed, or just fire up your beloved mingw environment, you bunch of lazy whining traitors.' Haha, so I went a little overboard on that, but I think that still seems to be the idea they're giving.