Republished with Permission - Original Article
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 (System, System.IO,
System.Collections, System.Configuration, System.Threading, System.Net,
System.Security, System.Runtime, System.Text, etc), ASP.NET (System.Web),
Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms), ADO.NET (System.Data), XML (System.Xml),
and WPF (System.Windows). 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 (MS-RL).
You'll be able to download the .NET Framework source
libraries via a standalone install (allowing you to use any text editor to
browse it locally). We will also provide integrated debugging support of it within VS 2008.
