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Microsoft is applying its Community Promise to the C# programming language and Common Language Infrastructure (CLI).  This means that anyone can freely build, sell, distribute or use programs with C# and the CLI without signing a license agreement or otherwise communicating to Microsoft.  This applies to all distribution models including open source and GPL.  Under Related posts: Blogs from Microsoft C# Development Team Microsoft to Share .NET Framework Code Microsoft Unveils Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0

CodePlex is Microsoft’s open source project community and provides a free hosting platform for open source projects created in .NET. Microsoft’s own ASP.NET team has its own CodePlex page – aspnet.CodePlex.com – where they give code previews for upcoming releases. There you’ll find the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 source code, a preview of the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Framework, and other future libraries, frameworks, and controls. One of the controls on the ASP.NET team’s CodePlex page that gets little press is the GeneratedImage control .

I’ve always wondered how the phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words” came about. I like to think that it was coined by some mid-level manager viewing a sales figures report that consisted of metrics from the past 1,000 days. After scanning this long list of numbers, he found, at the bottom of the page, a line chart that summarized the numbers, and uttered that now well-known adage

Mono is an open source implementation of the .NET framework for Linux, Windows, MacOS and other operating systems.  Mono v2.0 was just released and represents a major milestone in the Mono project. Read more >>