Dev Blogs
Recently, we shared quite a bit how we make progress on our open source journey (Roslyn's First Year of Open Source and .NET Core Open Source Update). We all feel highly privileged to be on the .NET team when all of this awesomeness happens! However, unless you're an active contributor on any of our OSS projects, you probably didn't have the oppor...
Code formatting can be a huge pain point. In this post, Jared Parsons, software developer on the Roslyn team, showcases a tool that takes care of it. We have just released the code formatting tool we use to automatically format our code to the prescribed coding guidelines. This tool is based on Roslyn and will work on any C# project. We strongly b...
Wow. Just wow. I don’t know of a better way to describe my feelings right now. Open source is probably one of the most energizing projects our team has been working on. It’s been a blast so far and the stream of enthusiastic contributors and interactions doesn’t seem to stop any time soon. In this post, I want to give you a long overdue update o...
Happy new year! Three weeks ago we published a proposal for an API review process on GitHub and asked for your feedback. The process is now in-place and documented in our developer wiki. Review process Our primary goal with this review process is to provide a good balance between OSS agility and ensuring high quality APIs. This requires havi...
This is a cross post from the .NET Foundation blog and written by Gianugo Rabellino. --ImmoThe increased openness of .NET has sparked widespread interest in the .NET Foundation. As a result, its Board of Directors has decided to extend the timeframe for community feedback on the .NET Foundation Advisory Council to December, 5, 2014. The ...
Today, we're happy to announce that we've started to move some of our sample assets over to GitHub, using the MIT license. So I can directly answer Ben's question: @ben_a_adams The sample code is now on GitHub. Check out this blog post: https://t.co/LXq2Ka1fLo — Immo Landwerth (@terrajobst) September 16, 2014 Why did we move to GitHub? The reason...
This summer we had six amazing interns that joined the team to work on .NET. Their projects ranged from internal tools, over shipping components to designing forward looking aspects: If you're interested in interning with Microsoft, visit our recruiting web site. Now let's dive right in and see what cool stuff they helped us building. Shaun...
We just wanted to say thank you for your time attending the dotnetConf in June 2014 where we shared innovation and news about the present and future of .NET, all in a single place focusing on .NET technologies. You may have missed sessions during the streaming delivered on June 25th and 26th, so, for your convenience, we’d like to remind tha...
We’ve recently shipped new collection types on NuGet with our Immutable Collections package. NuGet allows us to ship prerelease and experimental versions of libraries to gather feedback from the community. In this post, our software developer intern Ian Hays will talk about his intern project: an experimental NuGet package containing advanced...
This post was written by Daniel Plaisted, a member of the .NET Framework team who will be at MonkeySpace. MonkeySpace is the “official cross platform and open-source .NET conference.” This year, MonkeySpace Europe will be held June 9th-11th in Dublin, Ireland. Since it’s a conference specifically focused on open source and cross p...