Open-source fans announced on Monday the first steps in an effort to reproduce Microsoft's .Net's underpinnings so people can use the technology without Microsoft's involvement.

Cake allows .Net developers to write build scripts in C# and run them on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X Cake, a C#-based cross-platform build automation framework, has moved to the jurisdiction of ...

Microsoft has released the open source code for CoreCLR, the execution engine for its .NET Framework fork, .NET Core. .NET Core was opened-sourced last year, and aims to make it simpler to develop ...

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

It's a big day for Microsoft and its (soon to be even larger) cadre of dedicated developers: Starting today, Microsoft is making the core parts of its .Net framework open-source, and cross ...

An open source .NET will make Microsoft software more appealing to developers, he says, but perhaps not as appealing as the combination of Linux and Java or some other programming platform.

In April, Microsoft announced plans to open source a number of its developer technologies, including ASP.NET, the Roslyn .NET compiler platform, the .NET Micro Framework, .NET Rx and the VB and C# ...