Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 3rd Oct 2007 19:39 UTC, submitted by gonzo
"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."
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2007-02-17
Hardly.
If you have the .Net framework from Microsoft, you cannpt write cross-platform applications. The .Net framework by itself is able to produce only Windows programs.
If you add extensions to .Net, such as GTK# and GNOME#, then you can produce only Windows programs such that the sorce code you have written can be used on other platforms.
If, finally, you want to make your program fro another platform, you need Mono, since .Net can produce only executable applications for Windows.
Mono is not .Net.
Ergo, .Net is not cross-platform.