Open Source

At Xamarin Evolve 2013, I caught up with Xamarin CTO Miguel de Icaza after his keynote. It's been a while since I last chatted with Miguel, so it was great to catch up. Clearly, he and team have been very busy pushing Mono forward and building Xamarin—a new technology that enables developers to…

Today, Microsoft Open Technologies announced the open sourcing of Reactive Extensions! In addition to the usual support for .NET and JS we're very pleased to announce the release of the C++ Rx library! Now, C/C++ developers get to experience the power of LINQ…

Join your guides Brady Gaster and Cory Fowler as they talk to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. In this episode, Brady welcomes Glenn Block back to Redmond from his three-month trip to China, where he worked with the Windows Azure team helping them…

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a web protocol for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today.  OData provides a simple standards-based mechanism for exposing information from relational databases, file systems,…

Join your guides Brady Gaster and Cory Fowler as they talk to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. In this episode, Cory talks with Doug Mahugh of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. about a recent release of the Windows Azure Storage for…

Join Tim Huckaby, Founder of InterKnowlogy and Actus Interactive Software, and Scott Hanselman, Principal Program Manager for Microsoft, as they discuss ASP.Net and Open Source Software (OSS). Scott talks about open sourcing ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) all with…

PhoneGap is an HTML5 and JavaScript framework that allows to build cross-platform mobile applications very easily. Since version 1.3, PhoneGap fully supports Windows Phone and integrates into Visual Studio 2010. For developers who are already using PhoneGap to target multiple mobile platforms, they…

This is a recording from an MSDN Live Meeting broadcast from the Microsoft Belgium office on November 8, 2011. AbstractKris van Der Mast (ASP.NET MVP) runs you through the Orchard open source CMS. Get to know Orchard, a nice free ASP.NET MVC based CMS from the Microsoft stables unleashed to the…

Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 is now available in Alpha! PTVS turns VS into an IDE for Python. PTVS a free, open source plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 from Microsoft's Developer Division. PTVS enables developers to use all the major productivity features of Visual Studio to build Python code…

Gianugo Rabellino, Sr. Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft Corp., talks on the IX Open Souce Portuguese Event about Microsoft Open Source, Interoperability and Cloud Computing past, present and future strategy. The slides for his keynote can be found here. More information…