Keynote: The Microsoft Open Source Cinematic Universe - Phase 2

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Microsoft scopes .NET as an open-source platform with about 60% of contributions coming from outside Microsoft, unifies innovations across .NET Framework, .NET Core and Mono, and shows concrete outputs: running the same .NET Standard DLL on desktop, server, mono → WebAssembly via Blazor in the browser, and a WinForms app with 85–90% code reuse when UI is swapped for HTML. Demos include Raspberry Pi GPIO cross-debugging and a Meadow microcontroller prototype, helped by tree trimming to 30–60MB and .NET Core 3 tooling.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:27History of .NET Open Source
3. 6:20The .NET Ecosystem
4. 9:15Mono and Cross-Platform
5. 12:57Command Line Demos
6. 16:54Understanding IL and Portability
7. 20:43Building and Referencing
8. 31:16Running .NET in the Browser
9. 37:03Modernizing Legacy Apps
10. 41:19IOT and Raspberry Pi
11. 46:56Microcontrollers and Conclusion

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