Is the source code for Microsoft .net CLR and C# open? If yes, where can I download/browse it?
+5
A:
You can use Reflector to view them.
Or, if you have Resharper 5 installed, you can download the source code for viewing purpose.
But no, it is not open source, despite that you can download and view the source code.
Ngu Soon Hui
2009-12-21 06:49:04
+12
A:
You can download the source code of .NET with the help of Netmassdownloader
Greco
2009-12-21 06:52:01
While I love reflector, I think this deserves to be the answer since it's actual source with actual variable names and comments
Rob Fonseca-Ensor
2009-12-21 06:57:11
Dang, beat me to it. +1 from me.
Wil P
2009-12-21 06:57:59
+1
A:
While I'm not intimately familiar with the licensing of Microsoft's available source code, there is at least one implementation of the CLR and C# compiler that is open source -- Novell's Mono.
Chris Miller
2009-12-22 04:48:34