Is Reactive Extensions Open Source?

Question

Is Reactive Extensions Open Source? Will Microsoft be open source?

I want to read the source code to better understand how it is implemented. I would like to see unit tests, so I can run them against some of my own code, overriding some of Reactive.Linq .

I know Microsoft open source F #, which is convenient for developers https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp

Answer 1

If you missed it, Rx is now open source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/11/06/ms-open-tech-open-sources-rx-reactive-extensions -a-cure-for-asynchronous-data-streams-in-cloud-programming.aspx

• http://rx.codeplex.com/
• https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/Rx.NET

Answer 2

11/11/2012 update: Forgot about it, now Open Source, yay!

https://rx.codeplex.com/

https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/Rx.NET

It also includes interactive extensions.

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A quick search does not cause links to CodePlex, so I will say that this is not open source.

Bart De Smet has made many videos about Rx and how it works and how to use it:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/reactive+extensions

To see the insides, if you know that the assembly is stored in it, the only remaining option is to parse it using something like ILSpy or dotPeek .

Will Microsoft open source? They released the .NET source some time ago, maybe they will do the same. This is not the same as open source, but you can at least enter the code and see what it is. I did not look, but the Rx material may already be there.

Answer 3

Only the JavaScript Rx implementation is open. https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions