.NET Foundation

The .NET Foundation is an independent organization that supports open source development and collaboration within the .NET ecosystem. The .NET foundation supports the development of active projects within the ecosystem by evangelizing the technologies through organizing/sponsoring meetups and by active involvement in community-driven projects.

The .NET Foundation portfolio grew especially large due to the projects that were brought in by the acquisition of Xamarin.

Notable .NET Foundation projects

Some of the most notable projects that are generally used in modern .NET applications, as well as cross-platform mobile applications, are as follows:

• .NET Core
• ASP.NET Core
• Roslyn
• Reactive Extensions
• Entity...