.Net Source Code
Posted by gabriel,
Sat Oct 04 15:30:00 UTC 2008
Have you ever wondered what’s behind all the classes you use in the .Net framework? Now that Microsoft opened the code you can have a pick at it.
I think that the looking at this code is a great way to learn and also be a better programmer since you will understand what happens behind the scenes. If you have a doubt if some API or control is the source of a performance problem you can take a look for yourself.
VisualStudio let’s you download the code as needed during debug but there’s a great tool called NetMassDownloader that will allow you to download all the code at once. The total size of the source code is about 170 MB.
There’s also a good post on the CodeProject site that will show how to set it up with VisualStudio: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/netmassdownloader.aspx.
Have fun.
