What is the .NET Foundation?

An Independent Non-Profit Organization

The .NET Foundation is a 503(c).6 non-profit organization set up to support an innovative, commercially-friendly, open source ecosystem around an open source .NET platform.

.NET Foundation Projects

The .NET Foundation has a growing list of projects that benefit through this open source foundation with commercially friendly IP, copyright terms and licenses.

Supporting the .NET Developer Community

The .NET Foundation works with Microsoft and the broader industry to increase the exposure of open source projects in the .NET community and the .NET Foundation. The .NET Foundation provides access to these resources to projects and looks to promote the activities of our communities.

Open Source Software Foundations: Not Totally Boring, Actually Super Awesome - Jon Galloway from NDC Conferences on Vimeo.

News

Botwin offers an interesting alternative option for routing with ASP.NET Core

NancyFx is a great alternative to ASP.NET if you want to make elegant little web apis like this...

Many Kinds of Messaging with Clemens Vasters

There are so many messaging options in Azure, how do you choose? While at ProgNet in London, Carl and Richard sat down with Clemens Vasters to talk through the strengths and weaknesses of each messaging service.

Announcing UWP Support for .NET Standard 2.0

Today, we are releasing huge updates to UWP for .NET developers. The really big improvement is adding support for .NET Standard 2.0. UWP developers now have access to ~ 20k more APIs. This release brings UWP to partity with the other .NET implementations that support .NET Standard 2.0.

Events

Productivity with the Microsoft Graph

.NET Developers Association - Eastside

Seattle - .NET Everywhere with .NET Standard 2.0

Seattle Mobile .NET Developers Group

Partner Event: TechBash 2017 @ Pocono Manor, PA (registration link inside)

Microsoft Makers and App Developers

Recent Posts

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.NET Summer Hackfest Update: Session 3 Underway!

August 23. 2017
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.NET Summer Hackfest Update: Session 2 Wrap-up

August 23. 2017
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Welcome Telerik UI for UWP

August 17. 2017
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Welcome Akka.NET to the .NET Foundation

August 11. 2017
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Welcome ReactiveUI to the .NET Foundation

August 7. 2017
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.NET Summer Hackfest Update: Session 1 Progress, Session 2 Announcements

August 2. 2017
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Welcome AutoMapper to the .NET Foundation

August 2. 2017

A large and growing ecosystem

515

repositories

55

member projects

25,000

developers contributing

1700

companies contributing

Why .NET?

  • Samsung is embracing .NET because it is a completely open source project.

    Samsung

  • ASP.NET Core is open source, that allows us to contribute back to it if we have any performance issues which Microsoft review and together we make a better product.

    Ben Adams, Illyriad Games

  • Being able to develop a vast amount of Xamarin code, most of it only once, that serves multiple platforms is a great efficiency benefit for years to come.

    Michele Ivy, UPS

  • Using the same-size server, we were able to go from 1,000 requests per second per node with Node.js to 20,000 requests per second with .NET Core.

    John-Daniel Trask, Raygun CEO

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