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This Codeplex site will feature demos, samples, and helper libraries related to the selection and activation of the CLR: http://clractivation.codeplex.com/With .Net Framework 4 and VS 2010 the new ability to load multiple versions of the runtime has changed the way a version is chosen for any particular piece of managed code and gives developers mu...

Discount ASP.Net has updated their Hosting Sandbox for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC.http://www.discountasp.net/press/2010_02_16_free-asp.net-4.0-RC-hosting.aspxTo learn more about the new Web Deployment features in Visual Studio 2010 check out this Step by Step Walkthrough on Web 1-Click Publish with VS 2010To provide feedback on the RC...

    The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN Magazine is now available on line.  This month we have an article from Ron Petrusha on Formatting and Parsing Time Intervals in the .NET Framework 4.  The article contains details on new parsing and formatting support for TimeSpan values, as well as som...

I previously posted in November about a paper I'd written on patterns for parallel programming.  The original paper had over 200 snippets of C# code to demonstrate and exemplify the ideas being discussed.  Due to popular demand (and in honor of the many Visual Basic MVPs on campus this week for the MVP Summit), we've now posted another ve...

We’re hiring! If you're reading this post, you most likely have an interest in parallel or distributed computing, writing concurrent software, and the like.  Take that interest a step further, and help us make the manycore era a successful reality by coming to work on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft.We currently have se...

The new parallelization support in the .NET Framework 4 is implemented purely in libraries and the runtime and does not require special compiler support.  Therefore, it is available to all compliant .NET languages.  This includes all of the managed languages that ship as part of Visual Studio 2010 (Visual C#, Visual Basic, Visual F#, and ...

This post introduces you to a small improvement that has been made in Visual Studio 2010 & .NET 4 to reduce the size of the ASP.NET application level web.config 3.0 and 3.5 web.config As ASP.NET technology evolved, the application level Web.config had new things added to it. Since the earlier frameworks were using the same set of machine leve...

The F# team has released the F# PowerPack for download on CodePlex, and we're very excited that the PowerPack now has direct support for PLINQ.  From the CodePlex site: F# Parallel LINQ IntegrationFSharp.PowerPack.Parallel.dll provides an F#-style API for parallel operations on sequences that are part of .NET 4.0 as System.Linq.ParallelEnumera...

It’s finally here.  Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 release candidate is available for everyone to download now.To download the public RC of Visual Studio 2010 go the RC landing page:  Since the beta we’ve been focused on performance improvements, reducing memory requirements, increasing stability and fixing customer reported ...

Reed Copsey, Jr. has been writing a great series of articles on parallelism with the .NET Framework 4. The articles provide the insights of an expert developer who has been using parallelism with .NET to speed up real-world programs. Recommended reading.Parallelism in .NETIntroductionPart 1, Decomposition Par...