{"id":114155,"date":"2014-11-13T09:24:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T07:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=114155"},"modified":"2014-11-13T09:26:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T07:26:52","slug":"microsoft-net-goes-open-source-cross-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/114155-microsoft-net-goes-open-source-cross-platform.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft .NET goes open source, cross-platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced at its Connect (); event on Wednesday, 12 November 2014, that it will be open sourcing the full server-side .NET stack and expanding .NET to run on the Linux and Mac OS platforms.<\/p>\n<p>This includes ASP.NET, the .NET compiler, and the .NET Core Runtime, Framework, and Libraries, which Microsoft said will enable\u00a0developers to build with .NET across Windows, Mac, or Linux.<\/p>\n<p>The software giant promised that it will work closely with the open source community through the .NET Foundation, taking contributions for future improvements to .NET.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA strong, open source, cross-platform [common language runtime] (CLR) opens significant new options for building large server-based systems,\u201d chief technology officer of Groupon Brian McCallister was quoted as saying in a Microsoft press release.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft also released Visual Studio Community 2013, a free edition of Visual Studio which provides easy access to the Visual Studio core toolset.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fully featured edition of Visual Studio including full extensibility, Microsoft said, which targets any platform from devices and desktop, to Web and cloud services.<\/p>\n<p>Aimed at giving developers easy access to Microsoft\u2019s Visual Studio toolset for all non-enterprise application development, Visual Studio Community 2013 can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/community\" target=\"_blank\">downloaded from Microsoft\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More software news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/113701-microsoft-office-free-for-ipad-android-tablets.html\"><strong>Free Microsoft Office editing on iOS, Android<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/112116-skype-launches-video-message-app.html\"><strong>Skype launches video message app<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/111532-facebooks-stance-on-users-paying-to-use-whatsapp.html\"><strong>Facebook\u2019s stance on users paying to use WhatsApp<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/111160-google-to-launch-whatsapp-competitor-report.html\"><strong>Google to launch WhatsApp competitor: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/110806-windows-10-announced.html\"><strong>Windows 10 announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced that it has taken .NET open source and cross-platform, in addition to a number of changes to its Visual Studio development environment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[12375,36,123,7679,27635],"class_list":["post-114155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-net","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-open-source-software","tag-visual-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114159,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114155\/revisions\/114159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}