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, ...

In a move few would have ever imagined coming to pass, Microsoft is open sourcing more of its .Net developer framework and programming languages. Company officials announced the move on April 3 at ...

Tony Patton explains how you can set up and work with Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC) technology in your .NET applications. He also highlights the ODBC .NET Data Provider, which provides ODBC access ...

In the move from the ageing, Windows-only .NET Framework to the new open source, cross-platform .NET Core framework, some technologies weren't invited along for the ride, but open source projects may ...

Microsoft is porting its server-side .NET stack to Linux and Mac OS X, and is making more of that stack available as open source. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety ...

Microsoft today announced plans to open source .NET, the company’s software framework that primarily runs on Windows, and release it on GitHub. Microsoft also unveiled plans to take .NET ...

In the latest sign that there is a new regime at Microsoft, the company announced it will release the full server-side stack of the .Net framework as open source code, and that Visual Studio 2013 will ...

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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 ...

Microsoft is doing a lot of great things this year as the company aims to change its fortunes by adopting modern business ideology. Recently, the giant from Redmond announced that it is planning to ...