It's been over seven years since the Prism project started, led by the patterns & practices team. It was originally known as the Composite Application Library. Last year, we celebrated our 5th official release of Prism. The two major focuses of that release were: composability and ease of community contribution. From the beginning, Prism has h...
Today we are pleased to announce that MSBuild is now available on GitHub and we are contributing it to the .NET Foundation! The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is a platform for building applications. By invoking msbuild.exe on your project or solution file, you can orchestrate and build products in environments where Visual Studio isn't installed...
dotnetConf is a free, 2 day virtual event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, and it’s this Wednesday! As you can guess by its name, it’s dedicated to your favorite development platform, .NET. Grab a comfortable chair, a pot of your favorite hot (or cold) beverage and a mind to fill with all the latest .NET product and community news....
It has been a couple weeks since we last reported on the .NET Core open source project. It's been a very fun time, watching more people get involved in the project and to see progress on a daily basis. It's amazing watching my GitHub news feed. I have to scroll through several page views just to get through the last hour (on a weekday) of corefx, c...
Code formatting can be a huge pain point. In this post, Jared Parsons, software developer on the Roslyn team, showcases a tool that takes care of it. We have just released the code formatting tool we use to automatically format our code to the prescribed coding guidelines. This tool is based on Roslyn and will work on any C# project. We strongly b...
We’re excited to announce that CoreCLR is now open source on GitHub. CoreCLR is the .NET execution engine in .NET Core, performing functions such as garbage collection and compilation to machine code. .NET Core is a modular implementation of .NET that can be used as the base stack for a wide variety of scenarios, today scaling from console utilitie...
Wow. Just wow. I don’t know of a better way to describe my feelings right now. Open source is probably one of the most energizing projects our team has been working on. It’s been a blast so far and the stream of enthusiastic contributors and interactions doesn’t seem to stop any time soon. In this post, I want to give you a long overdue update o...
Happy new year! Three weeks ago we published a proposal for an API review process on GitHub and asked for your feedback. The process is now in-place and documented in our developer wiki. Review process Our primary goal with this review process is to provide a good balance between OSS agility and ensuring high quality APIs. This requires havi...
GC ETW series - GC ETW Events - Part 1 GC ETW Events - Part 2 GC ETW Events - Part 3 GC ETW Events - Part 4 (this post) Processing GC ETW Events Programmatically with the GLAD Library So you thought it was over, eh? But wait, there is more! My vacation is not over yet! 😀 In the last blog entry I explained the Suspend MSec and the Pause MSe...
GC ETW series - GC ETW Events - Part 1 GC ETW Events - Part 2 GC ETW Events - Part 3 (this post) GC ETW Events - Part 4 Processing GC ETW Events Programmatically with the GLAD Library In the last blog entry we looked at a particular GC trigger reason – InducedNotForced GCs. There are 2 other triggered reasons for induced GCs a...
