Microsoft Open Sourcing Azure Mobile Services SDK on GitHub

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42 points·alpb··6 comments

Microsoft's been open-sourcing more and more SDKs for a while now. It's good to hear about another, but what's really interesting to me is the bit about partnering with Xamarin.

Since its inception there's been fear about Mono being a dangerous platform to develop on because Microsoft might try to torpedo the project at any moment. This is far from the first time that Microsoft has publicly given the Mono project their blessing, but one that comes in the form of a business partnership is still nice in that it might help cut through the FUD just a little bit more.

The other really interesting part of this is that they are releasing it to GitHub, not Codeplex like previous releases.

Codeplex didn't start supporting git until March of this year. Azure has been posting on github since 2011.

I suspect Azure will continue to use Github; moving would disrupt a lot of developers.

https://github.com/WindowsAzure

There is also https://github.com/MSOpenTech - that has the redis 2.4 version for Windows using bksave-cow (background save in a thread with copy-on-write) instead of fork()/save...

It's nice to see them using Github more, but I'm surprised to see that creating a simple todo app is this much work: https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-mobile-services/commit...

Some of that has to be boilerplate that comes baked in, no?

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