NuPack is a new open source package manager that should make your life easier when you want to install .NET libraries in your projects. According to Scott Gu, it supports all .NET project types, ...

The NuPack package manager is designed to make it as simple as possible to integrate open source libraries within .Net projects Microsoft began offering on Wednesday an early version of NuPack, an ...

Seasoned open-source code developers are concerned that an effort to produce an open-source alternative to Microsoft's .Net development platform may be held hostage by the software giant, if the ...

Today at VisualStudioMagazine.com we're debuting a new, monthly column dedicated to open source tooling and development in .NET. The Open Source .NET column, written by Ian Davis, delves into the fast ...

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 ...

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 ...

At one time, commercial software giant Microsoft was known as a company that was unfriendly to the open source software movement. Former CEO Steve Ballmer even referred to the popular open source ...