.Net Framework Source Code Downloader

[keremskusmezer]

Hi Everyone,

I have made a tool, which allows you without the use of VS2008 to
download the source code of the framework from the microsoft source
servers.

I also allows you do debug the .Net Framework under VS2005 without the
need of the Microsoft Plugin and offline without any need of
connection to the Microsoft Source Server.

I want to release this tool, what is the legal status for a such tool?

Best Regards
Kerem Kusmezer

 

[Peter Duniho]

I have made a tool, which allows you without the use of VS2008 to
download the source code of the framework from the microsoft source
servers.

I also allows you do debug the .Net Framework under VS2005 without the
need of the Microsoft Plugin and offline without any need of
connection to the Microsoft Source Server.

I want to release this tool, what is the legal status for a such tool?

Doubtful.

I haven't read the .NET source download license in detail, but I suspect
that it requires you to use Microsoft's own tools for accessing the source
code, and that using third-party tools to do so is contrary to the license.

The actual legalities of such a license are not clear, but I wouldn't want
to be the one hauled into court by Microsoft as a test case to see what a
judge would actually say.

Pete

 

[dan]

Hi Everyone,

I have made a tool, which allows you without the use of VS2008 to
download the source code of the framework from the microsoft source
servers.

I also allows you do debug the .Net Framework under VS2005 without the
need of the Microsoft Plugin and offline without any need of
connection to the Microsoft Source Server.

I want to release this tool, what is the legal status for a such tool?

Best Regards
Kerem Kusmezer

read this:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/arch...mework-library-source-code-now-available.aspx

Yes - we'll be releasing a separate download version (that copies all files
locally) in the near future as well. This avoids the need for you to be
online in order to access and browse it.
Hope this helps,
Scott
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Dan

 

[keremkusmezer]

..NET Mass Downloader

Welcome to the .NET Mass Downloader project. While it’s great that Microsoft
has released the .NET Reference Source Code, you can only get it one file at
a time while you’re debugging. If you’d like to batch download it for reading
or to populate the cache, you’d have to write a program that instantiated and
called each method in the Framework Class Library. Fortunately, .NET Mass
Downloader comes to the rescue!

It is live now under :
http://www.codeplex.com/NetMassDownloader

Go Grab Your Copy.