rahmansunbeam Posted November 12, 2014 Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 Just saw the news in TeckCrunch. Nadella started to take bold decisions which could surely change Microsoft in near future. Starting from the server side technologies only, maybe in future we will all see a complete bar-free ecosystem for everyone. For more than 12 years now, the .NET framework has been the programming model for developers who want to build apps for Windows. But in its efforts to take many of its developer tools cross-platform, Microsoft today announced that it plans to take .NET to both the Mac and Linux soon and that it is open-sourcing most of the full server-side .NET core stack (not client-side .NET), starting with the next version. As Microsoft’s corporate VP of its Developer Division S. “Soma” Somasegar told me, about 6 million developers are now building applications on top of the framework. “We’ve been widely successful with that,” he said. But now the question is, how do you move .NET forward? Microsoft already open sourced the .NET compiler earlier this year, so it’s not new to this (even though many pundits may still take a double-take when they hear the words “Microsoft” and “open source” in the same sentence). Looking at Microsoft’s recent history, however, today’s announcement doesn’t come as a total shock. At its Build developer conference earlier this year, for example, Microsoft announced the .NET Foundation and it’s that organization that will also shepherd this project. Unsurprisingly, the company plans to work with the Xamarin-sponsored Mono community, which already produces a cross-platform open source .NET framework based on C#. “We will announce this and then take the next few months working with the Mono community,” Somasegar told me. “We are working very closely with the Xamarin guys on this.” The efforts to take .NET cross-platform go hand-in-hand with this open source announcement, Somasegar argues. “I think of this as the next big step for .NET,” he told me. Microsoft wants to give .NET a broader platform and how better to do this than through taking it to new platforms? Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of the Cloud and Enterprise group Scott Guthrie echoed this sentiment when I talked to him a few days ago. He also noted that developers often tell Microsoft that while they like .NET, many don’t use it because it’s closed-source and only supports Windows. “After Wednesday, all the reasons not to use it have disappeared,” he told me. Read full article http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-takes-net-open-source-and-cross-platform/ 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted November 12, 2014 Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 congrats NET so, we dont need MONO anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rahmansunbeam Posted November 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 congrats NET so, we dont need MONO anymore? The new system will be using that platform. I think Xaramin too. BTW, TC just talked about unrestricted community edition of Visual Studio. It's happening !! http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-makes-visual-studio-free-for-small-teams/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted November 12, 2014 Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 Awwww. It's getting better and better. Those visual studio free, is it same level with visual express edition which is free too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted November 13, 2014 Report Share Posted November 13, 2014 yes, got this : http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs download : NETinstall : http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=517284 Offline installer ; http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9863609 njoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rahmansunbeam Posted November 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2014 Visual Studio 2015 preview http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44934 Soon it will be available for mac and linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabersan Posted November 13, 2014 Report Share Posted November 13, 2014 Visual Studio 2015 preview http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44934 Soon it will be available for mac and linux. Linux??? Seriously?? That's a fantastic new. Thank you mate. darksabersan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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