Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries
Scott Guthrie has a big announcement on his blog this morning, he talks about Microsoft’s plans to release the source code for the .NET Framework Libraries later this year.
One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET Framework libraries, and to easily enable debugging support in them.
Today I’m excited to announce that we’ll be providing this with the .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 release later this year.
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You’ll be able to download the .NET Framework source libraries via a standalone install (allowing you to use any text editor to browse it locally). We will also provide integrated debugging support of it within VS 2008.
And over on Ron Myers blog a great article entitled “10 Reasons Why Making .Net Source Code Available is Great for .Net Developers“.
Hop on over and have a read.
At some point I’ll talk about the ongoing work that Microsoft has been doing in this area and what my own involvement has been with projects like CodePlex, the Solutions Sharing Network and the work around Shared Source in general. We have been doing some work with these projects in Asia, and very soon the details should be public.
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Thanks for the mention Oliver.
Are you aware if the code will be released on CodePlex?
Apologies, it seems I forgot to link Scott’s original article. He talks about how it will be integrated into VS2008. I’m not sure where else you will find it at this point. The link is in the post now.