A milestone moment for Microsoft: .NET is now an open-source project. In what probably never would have happened under the first two CEOs to lead the historic software company, Microsoft plans to announce on Wednesday that it is open sourcing the entire .NET framework, a symbolic move by the Redmond, Washington-based legacy technology company officially recognizing that the open-source model of software development is here to stay. As part of the open-sourced version of .NET, Microsoft is also making the framework cross platform, meaning that developers should now be able to craft .NET applications that can run on either Linux or the Mac operating system. “This is a huge change (for Microsoft) and a change that has been slowly and steadily building up for the last couple of years,” said S. “Soma” Somasegar, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corporation.
This move to open source .NET comes from a “fundamental realization of where the world is” and what application development now looks like, explained Somasegar.
.NET. Aaron Stebner's WebLog : .NET Framework Cleanup Tool User's Guide. .NET Framework Cleanup Tool User's Guide Introduction This .NET Framework cleanup tool is designed to automatically perform a set of steps to remove selected versions of the .NET Framework from a computer. It will remove files, directories, registry keys and values and Windows Installer product registration information for the .NET Framework. The tool is intended primarily to return your system to a known (relatively clean) state in case you are encountering .NET Framework installation, uninstallation, repair or patching errors so that you can try to install again. There are a couple of very important caveats that you should review before using this tool to remove any version of the .NET Framework from your system: This tool is designed as a last resort for cases where install, uninstall, repair or patch installation did not succeed for unusual reasons.
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