Xamarin and Microsoft Launch the .NET Foundation

It has been an amazing day today. Not only did I have the opportunity to share the stage with the creator of C#, Anders Heljsberg, in the Microsoft Build 2014 day 2 keynote, but we also jointly announced with Microsoft the launch of the .NET Foundation, a newly created entity that will foster open innovation on .NET.

Xamarin contributed six projects to the foundation, and we are excited to be working with Microsoft as we take .NET in this new direction.

Microsoft contributed Roslyn to the Foundation, and on stage we demoed Roslyn working on a Mac with the iOS version of our new Xamarin Store App – a beautiful, native app that let’s C# lovers order their own limited edition C# t-shirt for free.  This demo was a great proof point for how open source will help get .NET everywhere.  We are very busy integrating the best bits of Roslyn into our technology stack.

Xamarin is contributing six projects to the .NET Foundation:

• Xamarin Mobile: a library that exposes a single set of APIs for accessing common mobile device functionality across iOS, Android, and Windows platforms.
• Xamarin.Auth: A cross-platform API for authenticating users and storing their accounts.
• Couchbase for .NET: A lightweight, document-oriented (NoSQL), syncable database engine.
• Xamarin’s System.Drawing:our cross-platform implementation of the familiar drawing API
• MailKit and MimeKit: robust cross-platform email libraries optimized for mobile.

The .NET Foundation will help accelerate the adoption of .NET across every platform and computing form factor—servers, mobile devices and desktops, and we are very excited for Xamarin to be a part of it.

Check out the Build website to see the recordings of the Day 2 keynote. Tomorrow you should also be able to see a recording of my “Go Mobile with Xamarin and C#” session.