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This repo is the official home of .NET on GitHub. It's a great starting point to find many .NET OSS projects from Microsoft and the community, including many that are part of the .NET Foundation.

21 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 5 stories, 16 comments · first 2014-11-12 · latest 2026-02-10

Mentions per year 21 mentions · busiest year 2015 (6)
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  1. https://github.com/microsoft/dotnet Check it out yourself.
    comment by jayd16 · 2026-02-10 · in F# 10
  2. The .NET source https://github.com/microsoft/referencesource https://github.com/microsoft/dotnet Unity reference source https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference The above are example of production code. I use these as…
    comment by ystad · 2022-10-25 · in Ask HN: Examples of Top C# Code?
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    Growing the .NET Ecosystem
    story by dustinmoris · 2020-12-18 · 0 comments
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    Growing the .NET Ecosystem
    story by atraac · 2020-12-15 · 9 comments
  5. …significant actions that merit our trust," https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/mssql-server-linux/ https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore…
    comment by chomp · 2018-06-06 · in Why Open Source Software Is Moving to GitLab After Microsoft-GitHub Deal
  6. …'heavyweight.' Its performance is head to head with C++. Here's the primary repo for .NET goodies: https://github.com/microsoft/dotnet --- And if anybody downvoting could take a second to actually chime in, it would be illuminating. From…
    comment by indubitable · 2018-02-07 · in Python’s Weak Performance Matters
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    Net open source projects list
    story by mandeepj · 2017-11-28 · 0 comments
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    Microsoft announces the release of .NET Framework 4.7
    story by el_duderino · 2017-04-06 · 0 comments
  9. .NET is under MIT license ( https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet/blob/master/LICENSE ) and there's also a patent promise ( https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecifications/dn646766 ). There isn't an "enterprise .NET" version for sale.…
    comment by jongalloway2 · 2016-12-16 · in Oracle finally targets Java non-payers six years after plucking Sun
  10. And they've open sourced a lot more than just .NET Core. https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet
    comment by erikbye · 2016-11-18 · in Open Sourcing the Microsoft JDBC Driver and Maven Support
  11. …(2) Microsoft general repo collection: https://github.com/microsoft (3) .NET Core open source repo: https://github.com/microsoft/dotnet
    comment by LyalinDotCom · 2016-10-07 · in Azure IoT Loves Open Source
  12. >all of the Microsoft licensing and closed garden You mean the horrors of MIT[0] license? [0] - https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet/blob/master/LICENSE
    comment by romanovcode · 2016-06-23 · in Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala
  13. …or http://www.wired.com/2016/01/microsoft-tries-to-one-up-googl... or https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet
    comment by kristopolous · 2016-03-10 · in Microsoft will release a custom Debian Linux
  14. https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet How exactly is releasing the .NET framework on Github a lock-in strategy? Like many people, you are missing the point. The operating system is irrelevant. You have people editing Excel spreadsheets in an…
    comment by Delmania · 2016-03-08 · in Microsoft Joins the Eclipse Foundation
  15. Here's another one: https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet/blob/master/dotnet-devel...
    comment by runfaster2000 · 2015-05-20 · in WCF is Open Source
  16. This isn't new. The entire .net framework was released some time ago under the MIT licence. [1] [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet/blob/master/LICENSE
    comment by andyjohnson0 · 2015-04-30 · in Open Sourcing Visual Studio’s GDB/LLDB Debug Engine
  17. Really nice list, especially under https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet/blob/master/dotnet-devel...
    comment by odinserj · 2015-04-11 · in Open Source .NET libraries that make your life easier
  18. See: https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet This is an extensive list of (non-MS) OSS libs and tools for .NET , complete with descriptions. The URL might suggest this is the .NET source, it's a set of text documents with URLs to OSS…
    comment by otis_inf · 2015-04-10 · in Open Source .NET libraries that make your life easier
  19. What you are saying contradicts what is posted here: https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet ".NET open source projects typically use either the MIT or Apache 2 licenses for code. Some projects license documentation and other forms of content…
    comment by wvenable · 2015-04-02 · in Google’s ARC Now Runs Android Apps on Chrome OS, Windows, Mac, and Linux
  20. Microsoft .NET is MIT: https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet/blob/master/LICENSE Xamarin/Mono is LGPLv2: http://xamarin.com/licensing Purchasing a Xamarin license removes the LGPLv2 restrictions. If you have a established open source project…
    comment by ghuntley · 2015-01-28 · in Ask HN: Safe languages available on all major platforms?
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    Microsoft's .NET on GitHub
    story by dhfromkorea · 2014-11-12 · 0 comments