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Announcing TraceEvent – Monitoring and Diagnostics for the Cloud

August 15, 2013 Aug 15, 2013 08/15/13
Immo Landwerth
In this post, Vance Morrison, software developer on the .NET Runtime team, will talk about the TraceEvent NuGet library we just shipped. -- Immo I am happy to report that we have just released the TraceEvent library on (prelease) NuGet. This library is an important part of the .NET, end-to-end, cloud scale diagnostics and monitoring story. It...

Use SignalR Sample Nuget package in VS2013 Preview MVC 5 Project

August 15, 2013 Aug 15, 2013 08/15/13
Xinyang Qiu
We received feedback that the current 1.2 version SignalR sample Nuget package doesn’t work in an MVC 5 project by default. Here are the repro steps and the necessary change to make it work. 1. Create a C# MVC 5 project in VS2013 Preview (image) (image) 2. Install Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Sample NuGet package (image) 3. This ...

Announcing the EventSource NuGet Package – Write to the Windows Event Log

August 9, 2013 Aug 9, 2013 08/9/13
.NET Team
We are announcing the EventSource NuGet package, which enables fast app tracing to the Windows Event Log, including in production. This post was written by Cosmin Radu, a software developer on the .NET Runtime team We know that you want to build high-quality software. That can be a challenging task if your desktop or web app interacts ...

Building apps with the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview in Visual Studio 2012

August 8, 2013 Aug 8, 2013 08/8/13
.NET Team
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This post describes how to add targeting support for the .NET Framework 4.5.1 in Visual Studio 2012. It was written by Rich Lander, who worked on the original multi-targeting support in Visual Studio 2010. Here’s the question: (image) You can. Visual Studio 2013 ...

Building apps with the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview in Visual Studio 2012

August 8, 2013 Aug 8, 2013 08/8/13
.NET Team
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This post describes how to add targeting support for the .NET Framework 4.5.1 in Visual Studio 2012. It was written by Rich Lander, who worked on the original multi-targeting support in Visual Studio 2010. Here’s the question: (image) You can. Visual Studio ...

Documentation updates for .NET 4.5.1

August 7, 2013 Aug 7, 2013 08/7/13
.NET Team
This post describes the changes that we’ve made to .NET Framework documentation for the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Cheryl Simmons, who works on the .NET Framework documentation team. In the recent preview release of the .NET Framework 4.5.1, we changed the way we update the documentation for the .NET Framework, refreshed ...

Documentation updates for .NET 4.5.1

August 7, 2013 Aug 7, 2013 08/7/13
.NET Team
This post describes the changes that we’ve made to .NET Framework documentation for the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Cheryl Simmons, who works on the .NET Framework documentation team. In the recent preview release of the .NET Framework 4.5.1, we changed the way we update the documentation for the .NET Framework, refreshed ...

Documentation updates for .NET 4.5.1

August 7, 2013 Aug 7, 2013 08/7/13
.NET Team
This post describes the changes that we’ve made to .NET Framework documentation for the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Cheryl Simmons, who works on the .NET Framework documentation team. In the recent preview release of the .NET Framework 4.5.1, we changed the way we update the documentation for the .NET Framework, refreshed ...

Wondering why mscorsvw.exe has high CPU usage? You can speed it up.

August 6, 2013 Aug 6, 2013 08/6/13
.NET Team
This post was written by Rich Lander, a Program Manager on the .NET Framework Team. It was written for people who want to understand why mscorsvw.exe is running on their machines and want to know how to speed it up. Have you noticed that your machine is slowing down, and you’ve looked in Task Manager to find that mscorsvw.exe is the ...

Got a need for speed? .NET apps start faster.

August 6, 2013 Aug 6, 2013 08/6/13
.NET Team
This post was written by Rich Lander, who works as a Program Manager on the .NET Framework. He worked on AutoNGEN for Windows 8. This post focuses on how technologies such as Native Image Generator (NGEN), the .NET Framework Optimization Service (mscorsvw), AutoNGEN, and compilation in the cloud have improved the startup performance of .NET ...