http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:17:44 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/21591/Removing_NET_ClickOnce_Support_from_Firefox/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21591/Removing_NET_ClickOnce_Support_from_Firefox/ Microsoft is really making it hard not to distrust them, aren't they? We already talked about Mono and Moonlight this weekend, and now we're notified of something else. Apparently, the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, released earlier this year, installs a Firefox extension which could not be uninstalled easily (registry hacking was needed). To make matters worse, this extension came with a pretty big security hole (at least, that's what everyone says). A newer version of this extension has been pushed out in May, which can be uninstalled the proper way. As it turns out, Firefox apparently has a limitation in that extensions installed at the machine level (instead of the user level) cannot be uninstalled from within the extensions GUI. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:04:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) .NET (dotGNU too) 28 http://www.osnews.com/topics/36 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/21446/Microsoft_Turns_Net_Micro_Code_Support_Over_to_Community/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21446/Microsoft_Turns_Net_Micro_Code_Support_Over_to_Community/ "Microsoft is turning the source code for its embedded .Net Micro Framework over to the community and slowly withdrawing from that business, company officials are confirming. On the rumored list of teams most heavily impacted by second wave of Microsoft layoffs announced on May 5 was the .Net Micro Framework team - as well as the related MSN Direct unit. Indeed, both groups were affected, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed on May 6." Thu, 07 May 2009 17:37:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) .NET (dotGNU too) 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/36 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/21251/Microsoft_Releases_ASP_NET_MVC_Source_Under_Open_License/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21251/Microsoft_Releases_ASP_NET_MVC_Source_Under_Open_License/ "Microsoft launched ASP.NET MVC 1.0 at the MIX09 event last month. This new ASP.NET enhancement brings a Rails-like model-view-controller framework to Microsoft's Web development stack. In a blog entry published on Wednesday, Microsoft developer division vice president Scott Guthrie announced that the framework is now open source. The source code is available under the terms of the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL), a permissive open source software license that has been approved by OSI and is characterized by GNU as a free software license. Microsoft's move to open the framework will enable third-party developers to modify the source code, incorporate it into their own software, and share it with other users." Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:00:35 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) .NET (dotGNU too) 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/36 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19857/Microsoft_No_External_Code_in_DLR/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19857/Microsoft_No_External_Code_in_DLR/ "It's official: Microsoft will not accept any external code contributions to its planned Dynamic Language Runtime, which will run Microsoft's new scripting languages for the web and Silverlight content on .NET. Microsoft will, though, continue to accept source-code contributions to its slowly emerging implementation of Ruby for .NET, IronRuby. Contributions are helping to build IronRuby and shepherd the language towards the first-full release. The Register has learned, meanwhile, that Microsoft will start accepting external contributions to its other great scripting language project, putting Python on .NET - IronPython - in the "near future". The promise by Microsoft IronRuby lead John Lam comes nearly a year after the topic was first raised. The reason Microsoft decided to leave the DLR closed, despite taking contributions to the languages that will run inside it, is to protect itself from unwanted licenses and IP claims." Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:09:12 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) .NET (dotGNU too) 11 http://www.osnews.com/topics/36 News wakeupneo http://www.osnews.com/story/19588/Announcing_Pash_Open_Source_Implementation_of_PowerShell/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19588/Announcing_Pash_Open_Source_Implementation_of_PowerShell/ Igor Moochnick announced Pash, an open source implementation of Microsoft's PowerShell. "The main goal is to provide a rich shell environment for other operating systems as well as to provide a hostable scripting engine for rich applications. The user experience should be seamless for people who are used to Windows version of PowerShell. The scrips, cmdlets and providers should runs AS-IS (if they are not using Windows-specific functionality). The rich applications that host PowerShell should run on any other operating system AS-IS. Secondary goal: the scripts should run across the machines and different OS's seamlesly (but following all the security guidelines)." Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:38:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) .NET (dotGNU too) 36 http://www.osnews.com/topics/36 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19373/SharpOS_in_the_Stream_of_C_Kernels/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19373/SharpOS_in_the_Stream_of_C_Kernels/ "Previously, we have presented one of the two opensource licensed projects related to creating a C# kernel. Now it's the time to complete the set by rightfully presenting SharpOS, an effort to build a GPL version 3 + runtime exception licensed system, around a C# kernel of their own design. It is my pleasure and priviledge to host a set of questions and answers from four active developers of SharpOS, that is William Lahti, Bruce Markham, Mircea - Cristian Racasan and Sander van Rossen in order to get some insight into what they are doing with SharpOS, their goals, their different design and inspiration." Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:16:06 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) .NET (dotGNU too) 29 http://www.osnews.com/topics/36 News obsethryl http://www.osnews.com/story/19308/Developers_Create_Open-Source_OS_Kernels_Using_NET_Tools/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19308/Developers_Create_Open-Source_OS_Kernels_Using_NET_Tools/ "Developers are working to create experimental open-source operating systems with modular microkernels using the C# programming language. The SharpOS and Cosmos projects both announced their first major milestone releases last month, demonstrating the technical viability of the concept. Although some previous research has been conducted in the area of VM-based operating systems, the Cosmos and SharpOS projects break a lot of new ground. One particularly notable prior effort in this field is Microsoft's Singularity experiment, a research project that that began in 2003 with the intent of creating a managed code operating system that uses the Barktok compiler and leverages static analysis and programmatic verifiability to ensure high dependability." Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:47:50 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) .NET (dotGNU too) 29 http://www.osnews.com/topics/36 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19176/_NET_Framework_Library_Source_Code_Now_Available/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19176/_NET_Framework_Library_Source_Code_Now_Available/ "Last October I blogged about our plan to release the source code to the .NET Framework libraries, and enable debugging support of them with Visual Studio 2008. Today I'm happy to announce that this is now available for everyone to use. Specifically, you can now browse and debug the source code for the following .NET Framework libraries." Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:27:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) .NET (dotGNU too) 55 http://www.osnews.com/topics/36 News jayson.knight http://www.osnews.com/story/19100/SharpOS_Releases_First_Milestone/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19100/SharpOS_Releases_First_Milestone/ SharpOS 0.0.1 has been released. "The SharpOS project is aimed at writing an operating system in 100% C#. This originally proved to be a problem of nearly philosophical proportions because C# is a managed language, and by nature isn't designed for such low-level uses as developing an operating system kernel. Please note that although our goal is to create an operating system in C#, the infrastructure we have created allows kernels to be written in any language that targets the Common Intermediate Language bytecodes and exposes pointers and unsafe code." Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:50:15 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) .NET (dotGNU too) 25 http://www.osnews.com/topics/36 News William Lahti http://www.osnews.com/story/18993/Parallel_Computing_with_NET/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18993/Parallel_Computing_with_NET/ "With all the modern systems using multi-core and multi-processor systems, tapping this new power is an interesting challenge for developers. It also fundamentally starts the shift on how your 'average Joe' interacts with a computer and things that he/she expects to be able to. First, check out the 'Manycore Shift' paper from Microsoft. Second checkout the Parallel Extensions to .NET 3.5 which is a programing model for data and task parallelism. It also helps with coordination on parallel hardware (such as multi-core CPU's) via a common work schedules. There is also a new Parallel Computing Dev Center on MSDN. Before you download the December 2007 CTP, make sure you have the RTM bits of the .NET 3.5 runtime. There are also a number of bugs fixed in this new CTP. If you want a quick introduction then check out a few videos available." Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:41:01 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) .NET (dotGNU too) 35 http://www.osnews.com/topics/36 News Amit Bahree http://www.osnews.com/story/18949/Visual_Studio_2008_NET_3_5_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18949/Visual_Studio_2008_NET_3_5_Released/ Scott Guthrie has announced that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 are now available for download and provides a tour of some of the new features. "Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 contain a ton of new functionality and improvements. Below are links to blog posts I've done myself as well as links to videos you can watch to learn more about it." Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:16:13 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) .NET (dotGNU too) 84 http://www.osnews.com/topics/36 News Wyatt Lyon Preul http://www.osnews.com/story/18887/Microsoft_To_Open_Visual_Studio_Source_Code_to_Top_Partners/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18887/Microsoft_To_Open_Visual_Studio_Source_Code_to_Top_Partners/ Microsoft announced two significant licensing changes around Visual Studio that will be a boon for partners. First, the company said it will soon initiate a shared-source licensing program for Visual Studio and make the IDE's source code available to ISV partners for debugging purposes. Microsoft also removed a licensing restriction that previously limited use of the Visual Studio software development kit to development only around Microsoft's platforms: partners will now be free to create Visual Studio-based applications and extensions on Linux and other non-Windows platforms. Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:16:34 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) .NET (dotGNU too) 26 http://www.osnews.com/topics/36 News jayson.knight http://www.osnews.com/story/18718/MS_To_Release_Source_Code_to_NET_Framework_Libraries/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18718/MS_To_Release_Source_Code_to_NET_Framework_Libraries/ "One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET Framework libraries, and to easily enable debugging support in them. Today I'm excited to announce that we'll be providing this with the .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 release later this year. We'll begin by offering the source code (with source file comments included) for the .NET Base Class Libraries, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, XML, and WPF. We'll then be adding more libraries in the months ahead (including WCF, Workflow, and LINQ). The source code will be released under the Microsoft Reference License." Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:39:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) .NET (dotGNU too) 121 http://www.osnews.com/topics/36 News gonzo http://www.osnews.com/story/18230/The_Evolution_of_LINQ_and_Its_Impact_on_the_Design_of_C_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18230/The_Evolution_of_LINQ_and_Its_Impact_on_the_Design_of_C_/ "I was a huge fan of the Connections series, hosted by James Burke, when it aired on the Discovery Channel. Its basic premise: how seemingly unrelated discoveries influenced other discoveries, which ultimately led to some modern-day convenience. The moral, if you will, is that no advancement is made in isolation. Not surprisingly, the same is true for Language Integrated Query (LINQ). In simple terms, LINQ is a series of language extensions that supports data querying in a type-safe way; it will be released with the next version Visual Studio, code-named "Orcas." The data to be queried can take the form of XML (LINQ to XML), databases (LINQ-enabled ADO.NET, which includes LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Dataset and LINQ to Entities), objects (LINQ to Objects), and so on." Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:35:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) .NET (dotGNU too) 11 http://www.osnews.com/topics/36 News tuttle http://www.osnews.com/story/17740/C_Callback_and_Event_Mechanisms/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17740/C_Callback_and_Event_Mechanisms/ All too often, source code spends a lot of time on basic housekeeping, monitoring the state of many objects. This is wasteful, and with C# it is unnecessary. Software expert Stephen Morris shows how C# provides a range of callback mechanisms that obviate the need for polling objects for state information. Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:43:55 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) .NET (dotGNU too) 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/36 News