May 2009

.Net Framework Performance Survery

CLR Team May 29, 2009 May 29, 2009 05/29/09

Everyone has probably dealt with an annoying performance issue at some point or the other. Performance optimization is a hard problem and we could sure use some help from you. We have a survey posted at the CLR and Framework Performance blog over here. The survey contains questions assessing your level of satisfaction specific ...

Improvements to NGen in CLR 4

CLR Team May 27, 2009 May 27, 2009 05/27/09

Surupa Biswas has a post in the CodeGen team blog on new features in NGen coming out as part of CLR 4. The post covers NGen SxS (that's side-by-side) and multi-proc NGen, and goes into detail on the work that went into making Targeted Patching possible. Read the post here...

Channel9 Video on Background GC

maoni May 26, 2009 May 26, 2009 05/26/09

A couple of weeks back my PM and I did a channel9 video on Background GC. Take a look: https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Maoni-Stephens-and-Andrew-Pardoe-CLR-4-Inside-Background-GC...

Using Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit with Visual Studio 10 Beta 1

Web Development Tools Microsoft May 26, 2009 May 26, 2009 05/26/09

In this post we will talk about the effects of a particular security enhancement in CLR 4.0 Beta 1 and how it affects working with AJAX Control Toolkit in Visual Studio 10 Beta 1 and possibly other 3-rd party assemblies. The security enhancement in question is the way CLR 4.0 treats assemblies that came from a remote source (e.g., downloaded ...

Tail Call Improvements in CLR 4

CLR Team May 21, 2009 May 21, 2009 05/21/09

Now that .Net 4 Beta1 is out, you'll see a number of posts on this blog covering new CLR features in CLR 4. Grant Richins, a developer on our team, wrote a post on tail call improvements in CLR 4 at the CLR Code Generation blog. The post deals with JIT ETW Tracing in .Net 4 and specifically covers new ETW events exposed by the JIT. ...

Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.Net 4.0 (Beta1)

Web Development Tools Microsoft May 20, 2009 May 20, 2009 05/20/09

The public release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available and can be downloaded here. This is one of the most compelling updates to Visual Studio we’ve seen in years. The entire IDE has been refreshed with a new look and all the code editors including the HTML and ASPX editors have replaced with a new extensible editor based ...

Channel 9 Video – Vance Morrison: CLR Through the Years

CLR Team May 19, 2009 May 19, 2009 05/19/09

Vance Morrison, a CLR architect, recently gave an interview to Channel 9 where he walks through the history of the CLR (he's been on our team since it's very beginning), the upcoming version, his favorite features in CLR v4, and what the future looks like. He also talks about concurrency (and the role that CLR plays), ...

The Conditional Weak Table: Enabling Dynamic Object Properties

CLR Team May 18, 2009 May 18, 2009 05/18/09

The Dynamic Language Runtime allows you to implement a dynamic language (such as Ruby or Python) on top of the CLR. There are a lot of challenges to making everything work right. One particularly difficult aspect was enabling Ruby to attach arbitrary "properties" to instanced .NET managed objects at runtime. If a Ruby developer sets an ...

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May 2009 - .NET Blog

.Net Framework Performance Survery

More Channel 9 Videos on CLR 4

Improvements to NGen in CLR 4

More Channel 9 videos

Channel9 Video on Background GC

Using Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit with Visual Studio 10 Beta 1

Tail Call Improvements in CLR 4

Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.Net 4.0 (Beta1)

Channel 9 Video – Vance Morrison: CLR Through the Years

The Conditional Weak Table: Enabling Dynamic Object Properties

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