Scott Guthrie announced today that they are finally releasing the source code to the .NET Framework libraries. So far you can now browse and debug the source code for the following .NET Framework libraries:
- .NET Base Class Libraries (including System, System.CodeDom, System.Collections, System.ComponentModel, System.Diagnostics, System.Drawing, System.Globalization, System.IO, System.Net, System.Reflection, System.Runtime, System.Security, System.Text, System.Threading, etc).
- ASP.NET (System.Web, System.Web.Extensions)
- Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms)
- Windows Presentation Foundation (System.Windows)
- ADO.NET and XML (System.Data and System.Xml)
…with more to come.
With in-built debugging support in VS 2008, this is really going to improve developers’ understaning of the .NET framework and lead them all to write better applications. Yet another reason to make the switch to VS 2008!
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