.NET

With the advent of .NET Core 1.0, things have changed. Dramatically. For starters, it's open source. This means anyone, including you and I, can submit bug fixes and enhancements to the .NET framework. It will now run on Mac and Linux. You can compile code natively to the platform of your choice. And beyond that, it's much more modular. There's the Common Language Runtime (CLR), the CoreFX (where the "System." libraries live), the Command Line Interface (CLI), and other modules...

I'm a .NET developer at heart, and I want to write C# code that runs natively in Linux - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to be specific. So, I hopped over to the Red Hat .NET Developers web site, installed the CDK and was up and running in short order. I had a no-cost developer's copy of RHEL running on my PC and was writing .NET code. Life was good. I had my instance of RHEL inside a Vagrant Box...

Much has changed in the IT world in the last few years, first Microsoft Loves Linux and now Red Hat Loves .NET. I suspect for many of you it is a bit bewildering, however, there are huge wins here for software developers. C# is rapidly becoming the programming language with the greatest number of target platforms, including: iOS, Android, OSX, and now through the partnership with Red Hat (home of the worlds' most popular enterprise Linux platform) C# is becoming...

Back in November we announced that we would be partnering with Microsoft to make a supported version of .NET available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Since then we’ve been working together to make sure that .NET runs great on RHEL and has the capabilities that enterprise developers require. Today, at Microsoft Build, we were invited to join Scott Hanselmann on stage where we demonstrated some of that work and showed how the partnership is helping to create a more stable...

The .NET framework is a relatively young technology when compared to the rest of computer science history, but as it turns fourteen this year, we can look back and see a long-standing record of innovation, developer productivity, and more recently a refreshing open-source mentality from Microsoft that has resulted in the first ever release of (the official) .NET framework in a Linux distribution. .NET is a development platform that includes several programming languages, notably C# and Visual Basic, and the...

We are heading to Moscone in San Francisco. Yes, for DevNation in June, but we are there for Microsoft Build 2016 this week. We’ve got many exciting things planned - some below and some you will need to wait and see - but as a first time sponsor of Build we are looking forward to welcoming the .NET audience to Red Hat Developers. All the details are here but here are some of the highlights: Red Hat Developers team will...

Another December and another list of must-read blog articles for the year. These were the most read and averaged 16,000 views per article - so lots of interest! Scala vs. Node.js as a RESTful backend server (31000 views) Improving math performance in glibc Red Hat and Microsoft making .NET on Linux work for Enterprises Five different ways to handle leap seconds with NTP JIT-compilation using GCC 5 GCC5 and the C++11 ABI GCC 5 in Fedora Live Migrating QEMU-KVM Virtual...

Today is a pretty exciting day if you’re an enterprise developer. . . Red Hat and Microsoft have announced that the two companies will be working together to bring a supported version of the .NET runtime to Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux and OpenShift 3. This offers developers more freedom and choice in how they develop their applications. Having spent a big part of my career at Microsoft and working with .NET since its inception, I’ve grown to love the strengths...

There was a time, not so long ago, when enterprise software development was pretty straight forward. For most, there were few choices – Java or .Net, Linux or Windows, a handful of databases and IT ran everything. Today, it’s anything but straight forward. There are dozens of languages, dozens of ways to host and deliver your applications, different client technologies, some proprietary and some not… there are a lot of decisions to make. When there were limited choices, developers usually...