• Shawn Burke : Discussing the Release of .NET Source Code - Video

In this video we find out about how this is all going to work and see it in action as Shawn steps into the Windows Forms code from Visual Studio. Shawn also talks about how this has been something he has been working on for a long time in order to bring a really deep debugging experience for .NET developers.

  • ScottGu’s Blog : Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries -

Scott has an excellent walk through and integration works and Scott Hanselman and Shawn Burke recently recorder this Podcast.

  • Hanselman : Interview with Shawn Burke on Microsoft’s .NET Source Code Release - Audio

Scott and Carl talk with Shawn Burke on the culmination of his many-year-old plan to get parts of the source of the .NET Framework released. With Visual Studio 2008, a simple process will allow developers to STEP INTO the .NET Framework Source from the IDE. This’ll be a great debugging and learning tool.

  • InfoQ: Open Source: The .NET Framework

Back in 2000, rapper Eminem released a parody song titled, “The Real Slim Shady”. At the time it was meant to be a parody of of manufactured pop songs that were prevalent in the pop music world. The irony was that most listeners and fans missed the song’s true intent and heralded its novelty. Today, Scott Guthrie announced with the release of .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft will release the .NET Framework source code under the Microsoft Reference License.