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The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN Magazine is now available on line. This month we have an article from Subramanian Ramaswamy and Vance Morrison on Profiling the .NET Garbage-Collected Heap. This article provides instructions on using the CLR Profiler for memory investigations ...
Visual Studio 2010 improves .NET framework multi-targeting by applying framework-appropriate filtering to the property grid and Intellisense. For example, if you select a button on a web form of a .NET 2.0 web project, in the Property Grid you will see: (image) If you go to the Project Properties and change the Target Framework version...
For many web applications developed using Visual Studio, developers uses SQL express with mdf database file under app_data folder. If deploying data host requires SQL server, developers have to find ways to deploy the schema and data from mdf file to the host SQL server. Dev10 Beta1 provides an easy solution to publish the mdf file to ...
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I’m excited to announce – WebsiteSpark – a new program from Microsoft that provides software and support for building web sites, at no cost for 3 years.
What You Get
Software:
WebsiteSpark provides software licenses that you can use for 3 years at no upfront cost (there is only an exit fee of $100 payable upon exit from the ...
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Sorry for the delay in the post, but in case you haven’t seen it yet, the new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is available on line. This month we have an article from Justin Van Patten on What’s New in the .NET Framework 4 Base Class Library, covering mainly the new ...
Some time ago Jim Cheshire wrote a book on VWD 2008 and recently book publisher kindly allowed us to provide four chapters as free downloadable PDF files. The following chapters are available:
You can find link to download at VWD section on ASP.NET Web site (look for Visual Web Developer Books section at the right side) or download ...
(image) The Web Development Tools team is looking for an energetic talented program manager familiar with emerging web standards to design the next generation web authoring experience. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about tooling for web standards including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX and ASP.Net. An ideal candidate will ...
The IL Stub Diagnostic Tool enables real-time inspection of the contents of IL stubs. Developers now have a powerful tool to troubleshoot issues in interop marshalling, Introduction Jesse posted a great blog talking about the concept, history, and improvements of Intermediate Language (IL) stubs for CLR v4. He mentions The remainder of...
Every so often we get asked questions about the CLR’s support for exception filters. Why do some languages support them and others do not? Is it a good idea to add them to my new language? When should I use a filter vs. catch/rethrow? Etc. I’ll try to answer some of these questions for you here, and while I won’t go into all ...
When the CLR needs to transition between managed and native code – usually because of P\Invoke or COM interop – we need to generate marshaling stubs (little chunks of code) to handle that specific call and transform the data from managed to native format and back again. . These stubs are little pieces of code that are ...