Windows 10: .NET at Build 2016 – Open, Cross-platform and FREE

Xamarin for Everyone

We’ve heard many predictions and guesses of how Xamarin would be integrated into Visual Studio and Microsoft. It turns out that reality is better than anyone guessed. Xamarin is now a key part of Visual Studio and included in the box, at no extra cost. It’s even included in the free Community edition. There’s never been a better reason to download Visual Studio and start developing your next app.





For those of you just joining the story, Xamarin is an Enterprise-grade solution for building iOS, Android and Windows 10 UWP apps, using C# or F# and .NET APIs. For .NET developers, it’s an obvious choice to target the newest platforms. If you already have Visual Studio 2015, you have Xamarin!

Here’s a great tweet that tells the story of how good the Xamarin tools are:

Mono for Anyone for Any Use

Mono been re-licensed with the MIT license and is now for of .NET Foundation. It’s now usable for any imaginable purpose. Mono has been ported to many OSes and CPUs. It’s very broadly applicable. It powers Xamarin, has been used in gaming systems and for desktop and server apps.

The Mono that will be released is any slightly better than one that was available. Xamarin had some fixes and extensions that made Xamarin’s use of Mono a bit better. Those changes will all be released as part of this change.

Seriously, take Mono … do something amazing with it. You will make Miguel happy.

Red Hat Announces a No-Cost Option

It’s no secret that Red Hat and Microsoft have been working together to make .NET Core available as a first class developer platform option on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The teams have been working together for several months. There is a lot of demand for .NET on RHEL. It will soon be available. Red Hat has a new option that makes using .NET Core on RHEL even easier.

Today, Red Hat the availability of a no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux developer subscription that can be downloaded from their Red Hat Developers program site. Getting started guides are available to easily set up your Windows system as a Virtualbox, VMware, or Hyper-V guest. Download it today.

.NET Foundation Technical Steering Group

The number of companies involved in .NET has been growing. Many them are taking bigger and bigger bets on .NET, including Microsoft. These companies have told us that they want to be more involved in the direction of the .NET ecosystem, particularly on fundamental design issues that affect everyone. The .NET Foundation seems like the perfect place to have an industry-wide conversation on .NET.

The Technical Steering Group is really a formalization and expansion of something that already happens. The various .NET teams conduct roadmap and design reviews with each other and share much of that same information as part of .NET open source projects. The scope of those reviews will grow to include Technical Steering Group members.

The creation of this group is really a statement that .NET is so important to these businesses that they need more of a voice. This doesn’t change the way that .NET teams will engage with open source communities. In fact, additional formalism will probably have the side-effect that open source engagement will get better.

It’s a Great Time to be a .NET Developer

It really is a great time to be a .NET developer. There’s nothing stopping you from building a great app. In fact, Microsoft and the growing set of .NET companies are doing a lot to make it easy for you to build that great app.

Start building that app today, in Visual Studio, Xamarin Studio or Visual Studio Code, on any OS for any app. Enjoy!



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n80 and thunderbird sync: petition

Nokia: please add support for Thunderbird and Sunbird.



(Mozilla Sunbird is a free, open source, cross-platform calendar and Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client.)



Hey!, it's free and open source!



(This goes for all PC Suite versions)

 

DVD

You'll need a DVD player program. There's hundreds of choices, but a very popular one is this free one:

Official download of VLC media player

Official download of VLC media player, the best Open Source player - VideoLAN
VLC media player VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. VLC is a free and open
source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming protocols.