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May 2014 - .NET Blog

.NET Native Deep Dive: Optimizing with Runtime Directives

May 24, 2014 May 24, 2014 05/24/14
.NET Team
This post was authored by Morgan Brown, a Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. It is the fifth post in a series of five about Runtime Directives. Please see the first posts in this series, Dynamic Features in Static Code, Help! I Hit a MissingMetadataException!, Help! I Didn't Hit a MissingMetadataException!, and Making Your ...

.NET Native Deep Dive: Making Your Library Great

May 23, 2014 May 23, 2014 05/23/14
.NET Team
This post was authored by Morgan Brown, a Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. It is the fourth post in a series of five about Runtime Directives. Please read the first post in this series, Dynamic Functionality in Static Code, before reading this post. As a .NET library author, you don’t necessarily have to do anything...

.NET Native Deep Dive: Help! I Didn’t Hit a MissingMetadataException!

May 22, 2014 May 22, 2014 05/22/14
.NET Team
This post was authored by Morgan Brown, a Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. It is the third post in a series of five about Runtime Directives. Please see the two posts in this series, Dynamic Features in Static Code and Help! I Hit a MissingMetadataException!, before reading this post. Sometimes the only thing worse than ...

One developer’s experience with .NET Native

May 22, 2014 May 22, 2014 05/22/14
.NET Team
Helge Mahrt has published an interesting blog post on his experience using .NET Native on his Windows Store app, 499+1px. The post includes a first-level performance analysis. (image) Check out Helge's post...

.NET Native Deep Dive: Help! I Hit a MissingMetadataException!

May 21, 2014 May 21, 2014 05/21/14
.NET Team
This post was authored by Morgan Brown, a Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. It is the second post in a series of five about Runtime Directives. Please see the first post in this series, Dynamic Features in Static Code, before reading this post. So you've started out with .NET Native and you're seeing great performance ...

.NET Native Deep Dive: Dynamic Features in Static Code

May 20, 2014 May 20, 2014 05/20/14
.NET Team
This post was authored by Morgan Brown, a Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. It is the first post in a series of five about Runtime Directives. If you've read our previous blog posts on .NET Native, you might be wondering how all of this works. We've discussed the performance benefits of .NET Native and dug into the tool-...

New Getting-Started Resources for Azure Cloud Services and ASP.NET

May 14, 2014 May 14, 2014 05/14/14
Rick_Anderson
This week we published a new getting-started tutorial with sample project for Azure Cloud Services on the azure.microsoft.com site. This is a multi-tier application that uses Azure SQL Database and Azure Storage queues and blobs.  It’s designed to be as simple as possible for a multi-tier application with web and worker roles, so ...

Update to SIMD Support

May 13, 2014 May 13, 2014 05/13/14
Immo Landwerth
A month ago we announced support for SIMD. Today, we're announcing an update to "RyuJIT" and our NuGet package that exposes the SIMD programming model. Updates to the Microsoft.Bcl.Simd NuGet package More types for We've expanded the support of the types: Support for mutable vector types We've also changed our stance on immutability. In ...

May 2014 .NET Updates

May 13, 2014 May 13, 2014 05/13/14
The .NET Fundamentals Team
The .NET team released a security bulletin and a security advisory today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-026 - Important, Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2958732) This update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Microsoft .NET ...