Alexei@Nitobi

In a fairly surprising move, Microsoft appears to have released a whackload of .NET source to their foundation classes, presentation framework stuff, and of course ASP.NET. The purpose seems to be to assist developers with debugging, so they can step into native .NET code to see whats happening in their programs.

Specifically, they have released the code for:

• NET Base Class Libraries (including System, System.CodeDom, System.Collections, System.ComponentModel, System.Diagnostics, System.Drawing, System.Globalization, System.IO, System.Net, System.Reflection, System.Runtime, System.Security, System.Text, System.Threading, etc).

• ASP.NET (System.Web, System.Web.Extensions)

• Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms)

• Windows Presentation Foundation (System.Windows)

• ADO.NET and XML (System.Data and System.Xml)

I think this is a smart move and will really help developers with debugging.

| Del.icio.us

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