Open Source

In this screencast, Garrett Serack from the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center talks about his new project, the Common Opensource Application Publishing Platform (CoApp). CoApp aims to create a vibrant Open Source ecosystem on Windows by providing the technologies needed to build a complete…

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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…

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 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…

I recently ported my own site and blog from a combination of community server and custom code to the Umbraco open source CMS and Blog4Umbraco 4. There are several other sites at Microsoft that are following a similar path. At MIX10, I caught up with a bunch of dudes related to  Umbraco,…

Content management of images, especially in publication scenarios where multiple crops and sizes of one image must all be available and associated together, is not a simple problem to solve. At Mix10, I caught up with Pete Miller from Conde Nast Digital and Alex Norcliffe from Xeed.…

Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack visited the "Open Source Fest" at Mix 11 in Las Vegas just a few months ago. One of the projects that really stood out - amongst the dozens of great projects shown - was Glimpse. Glimpse is a server-side NuGet package that plugs into ASP.NET (and other…

This segment we talk about Neo4j, the open source graph database, on Windows Azure. Jas Sandhu @jassand is joined by Neo Technology's Peter Neubauer, Diversify's Magnus Martensson, Micael Carlstedt and Anders Wendt from Microsoft Sweden. We chat at one of the offices of Diversify Inc., which…