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.NET Crash Dump and Live Process Inspection

May 1, 2013 May 1, 2013 05/1/13
Immo Landwerth
Analyzing crash dumps can be complicated. Although Visual Studio supports viewing managed crash dumps, you often have to resort to more specialized tools like the SOS debugging extensions or WinDbg. In today’s post, Lee Culver, software developer on the .NET Runtime team, will introduce you to a new managed library that allows you to ...

Social Engineering

April 24, 2013 Apr 24, 2013 04/24/13
Immo Landwerth
When people in our industry use the term “social engineering” they are usually referring to security attacks. Politicians and lobbyists would mean something entirely different too. But that’s not what I will talk about here. Instead, I’ll talk about the kind of social life we’ve around in our team. Why am I using ...

The Defrag Tools Channel9 series on managed memory diagnostics

April 5, 2013 Apr 5, 2013 04/5/13
maoni
Recently I did a few videos for the popular "Defrag Tools" series on Channel9. They are just talking about pretty basic things about doing managed memory investigations so I'd imagine for most of you it's something you already know. However, you can feel free to suggest things you'd like to see in the comments of these videos (or on this blog ...

.NET Memory Allocation Profiling with Visual Studio 2012

April 4, 2013 Apr 4, 2013 04/4/13
.NET Team
This post was written by Stephen Toub, a frequent contributor to the Parallel Programming in .NET blog. He shows us how Visual Studio 2012 and an attention to detail can help you discover unnecessary allocations in your app that can prevent it from achieving higher performance. Visual Studio 2012 has a wealth of valuable functionality, ...

.NET Framework Documentation Improvements

February 19, 2013 Feb 19, 2013 02/19/13
Brandon Bray
The CLR documentation team has been busy responding to feedback and making updates and changes to the .NET Framework documentation in the MSDN Library. We would like to tell you about the most recent set of document updates, which were published earlier in February. Performance content We have received extensive customer feedback regarding ...

C# is the “Language of the Year”

January 3, 2013 Jan 3, 2013 01/3/13
Brandon Bray
It’s a great way to start a new year: the PYPL index has named C# the language of the year. This index focuses on the leading indicator of learning a language. It’s nice to see that there’s been increased interest in C# over the past year. In the spirit of learning something new, here’s what we suggest you check out if ...

Downloading the .NET Framework and Visual Studio Express Editions and SDKs

December 17, 2012 Dec 17, 2012 12/17/12
Brandon Bray
Update: An updated version of this content is available: Get the latest .NET Bits. We see a lot of daily traffic through the .NET blog and the .NET dev center on MSDN. It is clear from the web traffic data that a key task for many of you is downloading more .NET software, to expand your options and experience developing .NET apps. The number...

Talking about .NET in the Community Press

December 12, 2012 Dec 12, 2012 12/12/12
Brandon Bray
We follow a lot of blogs and digital papers relating to both .NET and also technology in general. There is a lot of great content that gets published every day about .NET. We’re starting a new series to publish these great links, doing our part to help give that content a larger audience. For this post, I wanted to call out some of the ...

Asynchronous Programming for Windows Store Apps: .NET is up to the Task

November 30, 2012 Nov 30, 2012 11/30/12
Brandon Bray
Programming with async and await is the driving force behind delivering “fast and fluid” user experiences. Compiler diagnostics for async APIs guide developers towards best practices – it’s a wonderful example of platform and tooling working together. Since the Windows Runtime uses a slightly different implementation for async ...

Building Windows Store Apps with .NET

November 20, 2012 Nov 20, 2012 11/20/12
Brandon Bray
For .NET developers, this is the best time to build client apps. Never before have the Windows APIs been so easy to use from C# or Visual Basic without wrapping them with custom libraries. So far, we’ve seen some amazing apps in the Windows Store built using C#. Richard Lander, program manager for the CLR and frequent contributor to this ...