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TSS.NET Asks: Do you want source for .NET Framework Libraries?

Posted by: Jack Vaughan on October 03, 2007 DIGG
With the upcoming release of .NET 3.5 and VS 2008, Microsoft will reveal the source code for the .NET Framework Libraries. Licensing terms, however, do not allow changes or redistribution of the .NET Framework source code.

The terms of the license do not allow changes or redistribution of the .NET Framework Source code, which will be scrubbed of some comments. That source code will be released under yet another of Microsoft's several software licenses, this being the Microsoft Reference License, or MS-RL. Read the story and <strong>comment</strong> here. Do you want to view source for .NET Framework Libraries?

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·  TSS.NET Asks: Do you want source for .NET Framework Libraries? by Jack Vaughan on Wed Oct 03 19:58:54 EDT 2007
  ·  Re: TSS.NET Asks: Do you want source for .NET Framework Libraries? by Fran?ois Lemaire on Thu Oct 04 08:39:47 EDT 2007
  ·  Re: TSS.NET Asks: Do you want source for .NET Framework Librarie by jason kikel on Thu Oct 04 09:44:29 EDT 2007
    ·  Good point! by Jack Vaughan on Thu Oct 04 10:17:49 EDT 2007
    ·  Better than Reflector, though... by Charles Young on Tue Oct 09 15:54:19 EDT 2007
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Re: TSS.NET Asks: Do you want source for .NET Framework Libraries?

Posted by: Fran?ois Lemaire on October 04, 2007 in response to Message #240608
I know that sometimes it has helped me in Java to have the source code of the base libraries, as an example of implementation of an interface most of the time, and sometimes to enhance performance by knowing what's under the hood.

This usage can cause problems though, because you may tend to rely on the inner implementation that can change without notice. But the pros for me are greater than the cons, thus, I'd say yes, I want those sources.

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Re: TSS.NET Asks: Do you want source for .NET Framework Librarie

Posted by: jason kikel on October 04, 2007 in response to Message #240608
Has anyone NOT been doing this already since 1.1? Lutz Roeder's Reflector has provided this functionality for years.

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Good point!

Posted by: Jack Vaughan on October 04, 2007 in response to Message #240662
Very good point!

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Better than Reflector, though...

Posted by: Charles Young on October 09, 2007 in response to Message #240662
...yes, but you can't debug the code very easily in Reflector (though there is a debugger add-in), or seamlessly debug your code in Visual Studio. Also, you don't get the comments (though SSCLI helps here). This is a good move.

 
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