Yesterday, the world was watching Connect() developer event in NY City. Important announcement done by Microsoft on DAY1:

.Net goes open source: Microsoft made .Net code open source and it's available athttps://github.com/dotnet/corefx

Microsoft loves Linux & OSX: .Net core will be available shortly for Linux & OSX. Microsoft is working with MONO community

Visual Studio FREE !! Visual Studio Community 2013 edition is a full-featured IDE and it's free to download.

http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/free-developer-offers-vs

Visual Studio 2015: It adds cross platform development, the new open-source .Net compiler bundled with Android Emulator & Apache Cordova for iOS

http://www.visualstudio.com/news/vs2015-preview-vs

Lets see what the DAY2 of Connect(); offers ...

Here are the details:

https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/announcing-open-source-of-net-core-framework-net-core-distribution-for-linux-osx-and-free-visual-studio-community-edition