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{{Infobox software

| name = Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure (SSCLI)

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| developer = [[Microsoft]]

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| released = {{Start date and age|2002|03}}

| discontinued =

| latest release version = {{Start date and age|2006|03|23}}

| latest release date = 2.0

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| repo = {{URL|https://github.com/SSCLI}}

| programming language = [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[JavaScript]], [[C++]], [[C (programming language)|C]]

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| genre = [[Software framework]]

| license = [[Microsoft Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure license]]

| website = {{URL|http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/07/SharedSourceCLI/}}

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The '''Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure''' (SSCLI), previously codenamed '''Rotor''', is [[Microsoft]]'s [[shared source]] implementation of the [[Common Language Infrastructure|CLI]], the core of [[Microsoft .NET|.NET]]. Although the SSCLI is not suitable for commercial use due to its license, it does make it possible for [[programmer]]s to examine the implementation details of many .NET libraries and to create modified CLI versions. Microsoft provides the Shared Source CLI as a reference CLI implementation suitable for educational use.

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In March 2002, Microsoft released version 1.0 of the '''Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure''', also called '''Rotor'''.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/03/04/rotor.html | title = Uncovering Rotor — A Shared Source CLI | publisher = On .Net | first = Brian | last = Jepson | date = 2002-03-04 | accessdate = 2009-09-27}}</ref> The Shared Source CLI was initially pre-configured to run on [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], but could also be built on [[FreeBSD]] (version 4.7 or newer), and [[Mac OS X]] 10.2. It was designed such that the only thing that needed to be customized to port the Shared Source CLI to a different platform was a thin [[Abstraction layer|Platform Abstraction Layer]] (PAL).

The last 2.0 version of SSCLI was released in March 2006,<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8c09fd61-3f26-4555-ae17-3121b4f51d4d | title= Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure 2.0 Release | publisher= [[Microsoft]] | date= 2006-03-23 | accessdate = 2009-05-21}}</ref> and contains most of the classes and features of version 2.0 of the [[.NET Framework]].<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/kristoferkrause/GuidetoMSsharedSourceCLI11302005232759PM/GuidetoMSsharedSourceCLI.aspx | title=A Beginner's Guide to Microsoft's shared Source CLI (Rotor) | publisher = C# corner| last= Krause|first= Kristofer | date = 2003-05-13 | quote= Most of the .NET framework class libraries are present except for ADO.NET, Windows Forms, Web Forms, and Web Services. Either you or the Rotor community will have to implement these. On a less painful note, remoting, networking, and XML functionality (and source) are included | accessdate = 2008-10-05}}</ref> SSCLI 2.0 can be downloaded directly from Microsoft downloads and requires perl[[Perl]] and [[Visual Studio 2005]] running on [[Windows XP SP2]] to compile.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=8C09FD61-3F26-4555-AE17-3121B4F51D4D&displaylang=en#SystemRequirements | title = SSCLI 2.0 System Requirements | website = [[Microsoft]] | date = 2006-03-23 | accessdate = 2011-05-29}}</ref> Microsoft has not updated the source and build requirements since 2006. Even [[Microsoft Most Valuable Professional|Microsoft MVPs]], important part of Microsoft community ecosystem, complained about the lack of support for other Visual Studio versions and Operatingoperating Systemssystems.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://msmvps.com/blogs/gbarnett/archive/2008/12/08/shared-source-cli-aka-rotor-on-vista.aspx | title= Shared Source CLI (aka Rotor) on Vista | last= Barnett | first= Granville | date= 2008-12-08 | accessdate= 2009-05-21 | url-status= dead | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090101104145/http://msmvps.com/blogs/gbarnett/archive/2008/12/08/shared-source-cli-aka-rotor-on-vista.aspx | archivedate= 2009-01-01 }}</ref> However, a non-official patch for [[Visual Studio 2008]]<ref>{{cite web | url= http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeremykuhne/archive/2008/02/19/sscli-2-0-and-visual-studio-2008.aspx | title=SSCLI 2.0 and Visual Studio 2008 | last = Kuhne| first = Jeremy | date= 2008-02-19 | accessdate= 2009-05-21}}</ref> was provided by a Microsoft employee in the [[MSDN Blog]] and another for [[Visual Studio 2010]] was released by the community.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://callvirt.net/blog/post/SSCLI-20-Patch-for-VS-2010.aspx | title = SSCLI 2.0 Patch for VS 2010 | last= Pobar | first= Joel | date= 2010-04-27 | accessdate= 2009-05-21 | archive-date= 2010-05-13 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100513012523/http://callvirt.net/blog/post/SSCLI-20-Patch-for-VS-2010.aspx | url-status= dead }}</ref>

Later versions of .NET, originally known as .NET Core and now referred to simply as .NET, have been open sourced under the more permissive [[MIT License|MIT license]].

==License==

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* [[Microsoft and open source]]

* [[Common Language Runtime]]

* [[.NET Core|.NET]]

* [[Mono (software)|Mono]]

* [[DotGNU]]

* [[.NET Core]]

==References==

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* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/07/SharedSourceCLI/ Introduction to Shared Source CLI]

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