Entity Framework and Open Source
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The Entity Framework source code is today being released under an open source license (Apache 2.0), and the code repository is now hosted on CodePlex (using Git) to further increase development transparency. This will enable everyone in the community to be able to engage and provide feedback on code checkins, bug fixes, new feature development and build and test the product on a daily basis using the most up to date version of the source code and tests. Community contributions will also be welcomed, so you can help shape and build Entity Framework into an even better product. You can find all the details on the Entity Framework CodePlex Site.
While I've seen other products open sourced by Microsoft, I'm particularly excited by this one because they intend to allow community contributions.
Be The Noise
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The Entity Framework source code is today being released under an open source license (Apache 2.0), and the code repository is now hosted on CodePlex (using Git) to further increase development transparency. This will enable everyone in the community to be able to engage and provide feedback on code checkins, bug fixes, new feature development and build and test the product on a daily basis using the most up to date version of the source code and tests. Community contributions will also be welcomed, so you can help shape and build Entity Framework into an even better product. You can find all the details on the Entity Framework CodePlex Site.
While I've seen other products open sourced by Microsoft, I'm particularly excited by this one because they intend to allow community contributions.
Be The Noise
Microsoft going open source? This is almost too crazy to believe. Is it that their backs have finally been broken by the onslaught of open source technologies consistently surpassing the level of their own proprietary technologies? Honestly I'd like to see more of this. They don't even really need to allow community contributions, just allow developers to see exactly the source code that they're going to be having to use to develop using the APIs and Interfaces. It's not only helpful to see what you can do, but the precise semantics of exactly what is doing. Technical writers can describe a program very well, but no matter how verbose they are, they will never be able to precisely describe the behavior of a system. The description will always be of what the system is SUPPOSED to do, what it INTENDS to do, and what it's been DESIGNED to do. No amount of English writing will ever describe those qualities well enough, especially stacked up against the ability to view the actual source code used to attempt to fulfill those design specs.
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Microsoft going open source? This is almost too crazy to believe. Is it that their backs have finally been broken by the onslaught of open source technologies consistently surpassing the level of their own proprietary technologies? Honestly I'd like to see more of this. They don't even really need to allow community contributions, just allow developers to see exactly the source code that they're going to be having to use to develop using the APIs and Interfaces. It's not only helpful to see what you can do, but the precise semantics of exactly what is doing. Technical writers can describe a program very well, but no matter how verbose they are, they will never be able to precisely describe the behavior of a system. The description will always be of what the system is SUPPOSED to do, what it INTENDS to do, and what it's been DESIGNED to do. No amount of English writing will ever describe those qualities well enough, especially stacked up against the ability to view the actual source code used to attempt to fulfill those design specs.
Jeoshua wrote:
Honestly I'd like to see more of this.
Here you go: http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/directory.aspx[^] Also, not open source, but some other ways you could get code from Microsoft to address some of the issues you've explained: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx[^] http://referencesource.microsoft.com/[^]
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