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Singularity is an experimental operating system developed by Microsoft Research between July 9, 2003, [3] and February 7, 2015. [4] It was designed as a high dependability OS in which the kernel, device drivers, and application software were all written in managed code.
Windows Forms (WinForms) is a free and open-source graphical (GUI) class library included as a part of Microsoft.NET, .NET Framework or Mono, [2] providing a platform to write client applications for desktop, laptop, and tablet PCs. [3]
In November 2009, Microsoft released the source code of the Micro Framework to the development community as free and open-source software under the Apache License 2.0. [9] In January 2010, Microsoft launched the netmf.com community development site to coordinate ongoing development of the core implementation with the open-source community. [10]
At the time, Microsoft had no open-source products. Four years later, in 2004, a free and open-source project called Microsoft Mono began, providing a cross-platform compiler and runtime environment for the C# programming language. A decade later, Microsoft released Visual Studio Code (code editor), Roslyn (compiler), and the unified .NET ...
Windows SDKs are available for free; they were once available on Microsoft Download Center but were moved to MSDN in 2012. A developer might want to use an older SDK for a particular reason. For example, the Windows Server 2003 Platform SDK released in February 2003 was the last SDK to provide full support of Visual Studio 6.0.
Microsoft Visual Studio Express was a set of integrated development environments (IDEs) that Microsoft developed and released free of charge. They are function-limited version of the non-free Visual Studio and require mandatory registration. [3] Express editions started with Visual Studio 2005.
Microsoft Build Engine, or MSBuild, [2] [3] is a set of free and open-source build tools for managed code under the Common Language Infrastructure as well as native C and C++ code. It was first released in 2003 and was a part of .NET Framework .
SharpDevelop was designed as a free and lightweight alternative to Microsoft Visual Studio, and contains an equivalent feature for almost every essential Visual Studio Express feature and features very similar to those found in Borland Kylix and Delphi, including advanced project management, code editing, application compiling and debugging functionality.