Lots of new and improved things coming out of Microsoft lately including the second beta of WebMatrix, the 3rd beta of ASP.NET MVC 3 and a brand spanking new open source package manager for .NET.

The NuPack package manager is designed to make it as simple as possible to integrate open source libraries within .Net projects ...

Describing the move as 'the biggest transformation of .NET since its inception,' Microsoft this week announced the open source release of .NET Core 1.0, along with ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity ...

The Open Source .NET column, written by Ian Davis, delves into the fast evolving arena of open source development tools. Ian is the Master Code Ninja for software architecture and development ...

Microsoft's experimental Blazor project to allow .NET coding for Web projects via experimental WebAssembly may be getting all the attention, but new open source tooling does something similar, acting ...

Hidden patents in Microsoft's .Net could derail an effort to develop an open-source alternative to the development platform.

Microsoft credits open source and cross-platform support for the increased adoption of its software development platform.