First a quick intro, since this my first post on the team blog. My name is Omar Khan. I'm the group program manager for the web development tools team. I manage the program management team that helps design the web tools inside of Visual Studio. This post is one of a three part series that describes how to factor development of ...
The webdevtools team has historically owned a control that shipped with IE5.5 and above. This control is the DHTML Editing Control. In order to improve security in IE7+, we took a hard look at this control and decided to remove it from Vista and IE7+. A post I made yesterday on the IE blog talks about this in detail. Pl...
First of all, suspension and resumption of threads is not really part of the GC. GC calls functions to do the suspension and the resumption as a service provided in the CLR. Other components in the CLR also use this service such as the debugger implementation. But it’s true that suspending and resuming because of the GC is the most significant usag...
When I say memory I mean physical memory. Let’s assume that you have enough virtual memory space. When the physical memory gets low you may start getting OOMs or start paging. You can experiment and see how you can avoid getting into the low memory situation but sometimes it’s hard to predict and hard to test all scenarios your app can get into. Fo...
