Downloading .NET 4 source code

Question

I've been trying to download the source code for .NET 4 (http://referencesource.microsoft.com/netframework.aspx) since yesterday but it just doesn't work.

Clicking on the download links in IE, FF does refresh the page but the download doesn't start.

Clicking on the download links in Chrome does start a download but it's called netframework.aspx, there is no indication of how big the download is. In any event, trying to download with DAP has not result as well.

I've tried this on 2 different machines with the same results. And all of my installations including Windows is kept up to date.

Any suggestions or authentic alternatives would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I've had this happen before many times. It is downloading the installer, it just has the wrong name. I don't think it's worked properly in months.

You can just change the extension from aspx to msi and then install it.

netframework.aspx -> netframework.msi 

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IE10 appears to work now, where it didn't before (not sure if this applies to all versions of IE now).

It appears that when you download the file, the webpage is using a postback to netframework.aspx and sets an HTTP header to notify the browser of the content. Note the filename set in the content-disposition header which is being ignored by Chrome.

 Cache-Control:private content-disposition:attachment; extension-token; filename=DotNET.msi Content-Type:Application/binary-stream Date:Fri, 10 May 2013 18:31:05 GMT Server:Microsoft-IIS/7.5 Transfer-Encoding:chunked X-AspNet-Version:2.0.50727 X-Powered-By:ASP.NET 

Answer 2

Microsoft has recently updated .NET Framework Sources website, see this blog post: A new look for .NET Reference Source.

All sources, including project files, can now be downloaded directly: http://referencesource-beta.microsoft.com/download.html No installers, no stupid javascript protection, just a direct link to a ZIP file.