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Introducing the Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool

April 28, 2014 Apr 28, 2014 04/28/14
The .NET Fundamentals Team
The .NET Setup team has made some significant investments over the last couple of years in improving the deployment experience for the .NET Framework setup and its updates.  In spite of this effort, occasionally some customers run into issues deploying the .NET Framework or its updates that cannot be fixed from within the setup itself. ...

.NET Native Performance

April 24, 2014 Apr 24, 2014 04/24/14
.NET Team
This post was authored by Xy Ziemba, the Program Manager for .NET Native performance, and Andrew Pardoe, Program Manager on the .NET runtime team. In our previous blog post introducing .NET Native, we talked about how .NET Native gives you the performance of C++ with the productivity of C#. Putting that in quantitative terms, Windows Store ...

.NET Native Performance

April 24, 2014 Apr 24, 2014 04/24/14
.NET Team
This post was authored by Xy Ziemba, the Program Manager for .NET Native performance, and Andrew Pardoe, Program Manager on the .NET runtime team. In our previous blog post introducing .NET Native, we talked about how .NET Native gives you the performance of C++ with the productivity of C#. Putting that in quantitative terms, Windows Store ...

.NET Native Performance

April 24, 2014 Apr 24, 2014 04/24/14
.NET Team
This post was authored by Xy Ziemba, the Program Manager for .NET Native performance, and Andrew Pardoe, Program Manager on the .NET runtime team. In our previous blog post introducing .NET Native, we talked about how .NET Native gives you the performance of C++ with the productivity of C#. Putting that in quantitative terms, Windows Store ...

Sharing code across platforms

April 21, 2014 Apr 21, 2014 04/21/14
Immo Landwerth
At Build we announced two great ways to re-use your code: the new Universal Windows apps, and the improved portable class libraries. They both help you reuse code across platforms. In this post, I’ll describe both options and how you can choose between them. Overview Why two options? The short answer is that shared projects are about ...

How your feedback is shaping .NET

April 9, 2014 Apr 9, 2014 04/9/14
Immo Landwerth
Eight months ago we asked you to provide feedbackon the features you want us to ship. And you didn’t disappoint! Since then, we’ve seen hundreds of Tweets, blog posts and user voice votes. It’s great to be part of such a thriving community. We are fully committed to improving the .NET ecosystem by being more open. To quote Habib from ...

The JIT finally proposed. JIT and SIMD are getting married.

April 7, 2014 Apr 7, 2014 04/7/14
Immo Landwerth
Processor speed no longer follows Moore’s law. So in order to optimize the performance of your applications, it’s increasingly important to embrace parallelization. Or, as Herb Sutter phrased it, the free lunch is over. You may think that task-based programming or offloading work to threads is already the answer. While multi-...

The Next Generation of .NET

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14
.NET Team
At Build 2014 this week, we announced the next generation of .NET. The next generation will focus and deliver on two main themes: Core Innovation and cross-device apps. These themes are a direct result of your feedback, asking for new features in .NET and to make it easier to use .NET for all your apps. At Build 2014, we are releasing...

Announcing .NET Native Preview

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14
.NET Team
This post was written by Subramanian Ramaswamy and Andrew Pardoe, Senior Program Managers on the .NET Native team. We’re thrilled to announce the first release of .NET Native. Windows Store apps start up to 60% faster with .NET Native and have a much smaller memory footprint. Our first release is a Developer Preview that allows you to ...

Available Now: Preview of Project “Orleans” – Cloud Services at Scale

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14
.NET Team
This post was written by Niklas Gustafsson, Principal Program Manager on the Cloud Platform Tooling Team Today, at Build 2014, we are announcing the preview release of a cloud programming model under the codename “Orleans”. This project originated in Microsoft Research. Project “Orleans” provides a straightforward approach to building...