Microsoft announced that the. NET development environment will support three open-source operating systems (windows, Mac OS X and Linux) and. netos

Microsoft announced that the. NET development environment will support three open-source operating systems (windows, Mac OS X, and Linux), and. netos

Microsoft announced the. NET open-source development framework program on Wednesday (November 12. The company intends to use GitHub to open-source the development environment that has long been running on Windows systems, to implement cross-platform support for Mac OS X and Linux. According to the plan announced by Microsoft, the next release will be made in the company. NET development framework, the entire server development environment, from ASP. NET 5 to the Common Language Runtime and Base Class Libraries, will be implemented open source.

Developers can develop cloud-based. NET Applications in multi-platform environments. Microsoft also promises to provide support for the. NET core server running environment and framework on Mac and Linux systems in the future.

The decision of Microsoft's open-source. NET development environment is a bet on the long-term development of the future. S. Somasegar, vice president of the company's developer department, said that open source. NET will allow more developers to join the development platform, and also allow current. NET developers to target more users.

Microsoft is rapidly becoming a more open company. When the company's CEO Satya Nadella announced that Microsoft liked Linux at the Windows 10 preview conference, although it was not surprising, but for a company like Microsoft that regards Linux as a threat to its core business, this is still a bold statement.

At the same time, Microsoft announced the provision of Visual Studio Community 2013 for free. To achieve this goal, it has been working with the Mono community. The Mono community has been striving to turn the. NET Framework into an open standard, and now it is finally supported by. NET developers, that is, Microsoft.

Microsoft released the. NET Framework 12 years ago. A total of 6 million developers are currently using it. The announcement today further expands the application scope of the. NET Framework, allowing developers to develop their own applications on the world's three largest operating systems using a common code library.

The free Visual Studio Community 2013 provides complete scalability, including over 5000 plug-ins. Finally, Microsoft also provides Visual Studio 2015 and. NET 2015, just like Windows 10.