October 2012

Announcing the release of the .NET Framework for Windows Phone 8

Brandon Bray October 30, 2012 Oct 30, 2012 10/30/12

Bringing the full power of the Windows based CLR and .NET Framework to the Windows Phone has been several years in the making. The .NET capabilities introduced with Windows Phone 8 builds upon many of the investments we’ve made across all platforms and years of incubation. This release truly highlights some of the enduring themes behind ....

An easy solution for improving app launch performance

Brandon Bray October 18, 2012 Oct 18, 2012 10/18/12

Over the last ten years of building the .NET runtime, quite a number of assumptions have changed. Early on we could assume that most computer users only had one processor. Today, the assumption is that you have at least two processors. While including parallelism in an app for performance challenges most developers, what if that parallelism ...

.NET Framework 4.5 – Off to a great start

Brandon Bray October 17, 2012 Oct 17, 2012 10/17/12

The .NET Framework just passed 3 million downloads. During this time, we’ve been monitoring your experience, paying attention to both telemetry and social traffic. One of the first things I do every morning is read through all the Twitter traffic about .NET. Many others on the .NET team do the same. If you’ve raised an issue about .NET ...

Improvements in .NET Framework Setup for Developers, IT Pros, and Users

Brandon Bray October 12, 2012 Oct 12, 2012 10/12/12

The only experience most Microsoft customers have with the .NET Framework is the deployment and installation experience, which is why we spend so much time analyzing opportunities to improve it. For .NET 4.5, our goal was to build a product that was equivalent to a service pack with additional features. Our team studied how other products ...

Improving Your App’s Performance with PerfView

Brandon Bray October 9, 2012 Oct 9, 2012 10/9/12

Late last year, Vance Morrison, who is currently an architect on the .NET Framework Performance team, released PerfView, which is a new performance tool for .NET developers. PerfView helps you discover and investigate performance hotspots in .NET Framework apps, and enables you to deliver consistently high-performance apps to your customers...

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October 2012 - .NET Blog

Announcing the release of the .NET Framework for Windows Phone 8

An easy solution for improving app launch performance

.NET Framework 4.5 – Off to a great start

Improvements in .NET Framework Setup for Developers, IT Pros, and Users

Improving Your App’s Performance with PerfView

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