Seasoned open source code developers are concerned that an effort to produce an open source alternative to Microsoft's .Net development platform may be held hostage by the software giant, if the ...

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. As previously reported ...

At one time, commercial software giant Microsoft was known as a company that was unfriendly to the open source software movement. Former CEO Steve Ballmer even referred to the popular open source ...

Two years ago Microsoft did the unthinkable: It declared it would open-source its .Net server-side cloud stack with the introduction of .Net Core. The announcement was surprising, thanks to ...

An update to the Mono open-source software development project brings programmers one step closer to writing Microsoft .Net applications for Linux and Unix. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

Third-party .NET-centric dev UI tooling specialist Syncfusion this week announced the open sourcing of 14 controls for .NET MAUI, the evolution of Xamarin.Forms that adds support for building desktop ...