.NET Foundation

supporting open source .NET

Supporting open source .NET

The .NET Foundation is an independent non-profit supporting the innovative, commercially-friendly, open source .NET ecosystem.

Fostering community and corporate collaboration
Supporting top .NET open source projects
Working across the .NET open source community.

NEW: Meetup Sponsorship

The .NET Foundation sponsoring Meetup Pro and more for local user groups.

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Open Collective accounting
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Code Conversations

Interviews with open source .NET developers
Quick! 5-10 minute videos
Code focused! No presentations, we get right to the code.

Join Jon Galloway and Maria Naggaga every week as they chat with .NET open source developers about open source libraries and code.

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Join the .NET Community

Over 1200 worldwide meetups.
Built by community and industry leaders.
Strong open source ecosystem.

Join a community of millions of developers. Leverage the large ecosystem of components, Open Source software, and online communities support.

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.NET Conf 2017

45 videos!
New .NET Core 2.0 content
Learn to build for web, mobile, desktop, games and more...

Watch the videos from this online conference, including an overview keynote, getting started courses, and technical deep dives!

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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.

.NET News and Blogs

How to download embedded videos with F12 Tools in your browser

I got an email this week asking how to download some of my Azure Friday video podcast videos from http://friday.azure.

Configuring HTTPS in ASP.NET Core across different platforms

As the web moves to be more secure by default,

Improve website performance by optimizing images

We all want our web applications to load as fast as possible to give the best possible experience to the users.

Writing smarter cross-platform .NET Core apps with the API Analyzer and Windows Compatibility Pack

There's a couple of great utilities that have come out in the last few weeks in the .

Trying out new .NET Core Alpine Docker Images

I blogged recently about optimizing .NET and ASP.NET Docker files sizes. .NET Core 2.

Orchard Core Beta 1 released

This is a guest post by Sebastien Ros on behalf of the Orchard community Two years ago,

Docker and Linux Containers on Windows, with or without Hyper-V Virtual Machines

Containers are lovely, in case you haven't heard.

Events and Meetups

A large and growing ecosystem

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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