The .Net Reference Source Project is meant to help developers build better software, but they first must upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft said this week that it is now allowing developers to ...

The code will be released under Microsoft's "look but don't touch" Microsoft Reference License. Unlike traditional open-source licensing, Microsoft's restrictive terms only allow developers to study ...

Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...

Uno Platform, a framework for building native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML, released a new version of the Visual Studio Code extension. The new version adds support for ...

The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...

For all the business benefits open source provides -- namely, the ability to customize software functionality through extensions at a low cost -- it's not without its own set of pervasive downsides.