Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure: Difference between revisions

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| 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 and Windows 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 | date=2006-3-23 | accessdate=2011-5-29}}</ref>. Microsoft has not updated the source and build requirements since 2006. Even Microsoft MVPs ([[Microsoft Most Valuable Professional]]), important part of Microsoft community ecosystem, complained about the lack of support for other Visual Studio versions and Operating Systems<ref>{{cite web

| accessdate=2008-10-05}}</ref> Unlike the previous version however, it is only supported on Windows XP SP2. Developers trying to build SSCLI 2.0 on Vista either failed or could not make .NET programs to run correctly, leading some to think that SSCLI would not be updated anymore.<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}}</ref>. However, a non-official patch for Visual Studio 2008<ref>{{cite web

| quote=''My personal view is that the SSCLI project is doomed to spend the rest of its time only officially supporting that which it did when it was first released. If anyone knows any different then let me know. I couldn’t find any information on the web hinting that it would be updated if only to support Vista.''

| url=http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeremykuhne/archive/2008/02/19/sscli-2-0-and-visual-studio-2008.aspx

| accessdate=2009-05-21}}</ref>

| 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}}</ref>.

==License==