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Oleg Tkachenko
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.NET XML, System.XML
Blogged date : 2006 Jun 21
This is old news, but I somehow missed it so I'll post for news-challenged like me. Microsoft has released "Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure 2.0" aka Rotor 2.0 - buildable source codes of the ECMA CLI and the ECMA C#. This is roughly .NET 2.0 sources with original comments. Priceless! It's released under "MICROSOFT SHARED SOURCE CLI, C#, AND JSCRIPT LICENSE".
New in this release:
- Full support for Generics.
- New C# 2.0 features like Anonymous Methods, Anonymous Delegates and Generics
- BCL additions.
- Lightweight Code Generation (LCG).
- Stub-based dispatch. (What the hell is that?)
- Numerous bug fixes.
There is always the Reflector, but Rotor is different - you build it, debug with it, learn and extend CLI. Now what do I want to play with? Editable XPathDocument or XSLT2DLL compiler or extendable XmlReader factory may be...