It's happening. It's the reason that a lot of us came to work
for Microsoft,
and I think it's boththe end of an era but also the beginning of amazing
things to come.The .NET 2015 wave ofreleases is upon us. Here's what's
happening and we announced it today in New York.
and I think it's boththe end of an era but also the beginning of amazing
things to come.The .NET 2015 wave ofreleases is upon us. Here's what's
happening and we announced it today in New York.
There's a lot here, so drink it all in slowly.Be sure to check
out all the blog posts I'm linking to at
the end, but here's my personal rollup and take on the
situation.
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We
are serious about open source and cross platform.
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.NET Core 5 is the
modern, componentized framework that ships via NuGet. That means you
can ship a private
can ship a private
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version of the .NET
Core Framework with your app. Other apps' versions can't change your app's
behavior.
behavior.
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We are building a .NET
Core CLR for Windows, Mac and Linux and it will be both open source
and it will be supported
and it will be supported
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by Microsoft. It'll
all happen at https://github.com/dotnet.
We are open sourcing
the RyuJit and the .NET GC and making them both cross-platform.
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ASP.NET
5 will work everywhere.
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ASP.NET 5 will be
available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Mac and Linux support will come
soon and it's all going to
soon and it's all going to
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happen in the open on
GitHub at https://github.com/aspnet.
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ASP.NET 5 will include
a web server for Mac and Linux called kestrel built on libuv. It's similar
to the one that comes with
to the one that comes with
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node, and you could
front it with Nginx for production, for example.
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Developers
should have a great experience.
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There is a new FREE SKU
for Visual Studio for open source developers and students called Visual Studio Community.
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It supports extensions
and lots more all in one download. This is not Express. This is basically Pro.
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Visual
Studio 2015 and ASP.NET 5 will support gulp, grunt, bower
and npm for front end
developers.
developers.
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A community team
(including myself and Sayed from the ASP.NET and web tools team
have created the OmniSharp organization
have created the OmniSharp organization
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along with the Kulture build system as a way
to bring real Intellisense to Sublime, Atom,
Brackets, Vim, and Emacs
Brackets, Vim, and Emacs
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on Windows, Linux, and
Mac. Check outhttp://www.omnisharp.net as
well as
blog posts by team members Jonathan Channon
blog posts by team members Jonathan Channon
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Even
more open source.
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Much of the .NET Core
Framework 4.6 and its Reference Source source is going on GitHub. It's
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beingrelicensed under the
MIT license, so Mono (and you!) can use that source code
in their .NET implementations.
in their .NET implementations.
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There's a new hub for
Microsoft open source that is hosted GitHub at http://microsoft.github.io.
Open sourcing .NET makes good sense. It makes good business
sense, good community sense, and
todayeveryone at Microsoft see this like we do.
todayeveryone at Microsoft see this like we do.
