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Thanks to everyone who attended my two talks at BUILD this past week, and I hope you enjoyed the sessions!  For those of you unable to attend in person, the recordings of the talks are now available on Channel9: There were hundreds of other sessions this week at BUILD, and you can find their videos here: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUI...

.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 saw the introduction of a wide range of new support for parallelism: the Task Parallel Library (TPL), Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), new synchronization and coordination primitives and collections (e.g. ConcurrentDictionary), an improved ThreadPool for handling parallel workloads, new debugger windows, new concurrency visualiz...

The CSS Editor for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview is a complete rewrite of the 2010 version, featuring excellent performance and stability. As soon as you start to edit a CSS file or a style block embedded in a web page, you'll feel the difference! CSS 3.0 has expanded the richness and complexity of style sheets considerably, and the new editor...

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview has the JavaScript design time engine rewritten, sharing base with IE's JavaScript engine. It has faster performance and better memory footprint. The list below shows some new feature and changes comparing with Visual Studio 2010 for Web development scenarios. All feedbacks are welcomed as it's our passion to mak...

The public release of Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview is now available and can be downloaded. Please visit Jason Zander's Blog for the download links and overview of the new features.We have many great features in the preview. We'll discuss some of them in the future blogs. Scott Guthrie has a blog "ASP.NET vNext Series' which links to the detai...

So many of you have asked about it, and it's finally here.  You can now download the RC SDK and Developer Runtime of Silverlight 5, which includes TPL Tasks! https://10rem.net/blog/2011/09/01/silverlight-5-rc-now-available http://www.silverlight.net/downloads

As mentioned in a previous post, we’ve been working to address some performance problems on the NuGet Gallery.The fixes we have in place include some time-consuming database migrations. During our dry run deployments, we found that virtually all requests to the database will time out while these migrations are running. We have decided to...

Microsoft recently released the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 1.4 (August 2011) update which includes a new ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Role project template which makes it easier to deploy an MVC 3 application to Azure. Let’s walk through this process end-to-end. Step 1 – Install the tools Step 2 – Create an...

Parallelism is all about performance.  After all, in the majority of cases, introducing parallelism into code adds some level of complexity, and the primary reason we’re ok with that additional complexity is because we get great performance enhancements as a result.  As such, as we develop our parallel runtimes and libraries to help...

Several times recently, folks have asked how to use tasks to implement the APM pattern, otherwise known as the Asynchronous Programming Model pattern, or the IAsyncResult pattern, or the Begin/End pattern.  While moving forward we encourage folks to use a Task-based pattern for exposing asynchronous operation, the APM pattern has been the prev...