On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin <
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> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Michael Champion
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'd also point out that there are free SDKs and Express versions of most
> of the Microsoft development tools [1], targeted at non-commercial
> developers.  See  [2] for a neutral discussion of what has been left out of
> the Express editions.
> >
> > So, while these tools are not open source, there are no barriers that I
> know of against using them to build and test open source software.
> >
> > [1] http://www.microsoft.com/express/ (Designed for, but usable without
> Silverlight)
> > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio_Express
>
> great
>
> creating a short guide to getting involved in open source on .NET
> might help stronehenge encourage contributors


+1. Also, there are some ASF projects that use .NET technologies as of
present (ex:- Lucene, [1]), that might IMHO, be worth taking a look at.

[1] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/lucene.net.html

Regards,
Senaka

>
>
> - robert
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