The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is now available on line. This month we have an article from Surupa Biswas on Optimizations In .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles here. As always, please let us know if you have topics you’d like...
For everyone who attended MIX this year, we hope it was a lot of fun. Brandon from our team, gave a talk on "Going Inside Microsoft Silverlight: Exploring the Core CLR" at MIX09 last week. The talk covers how the desktop CLR was slimmed down to be used for Silverlight, and in the process, covers Core CLR's architecture (specif...
Assumption: This write-up assumes that you are familiar with the managed exception handling constructs (e.g. catch, filter, fault, finally). If not, you may want to read this and also refer to the CLI specification. Managed exception handling exposes constructs to handle an exception (e.g. catch and filter blocks) and also to perform any...
It has been a few months since our last release of TlbImp on CodePlex. We recently released a new version of TlbImp – please visit the Codeplex page for this tool to find out more. In this release, we’ve introduced two major features: 1. Ruled-based customization of interop assemblies 2. TlbImp regression test tool Ruled-based customization of int...
We’ve mentioned Code Contracts over on the BCL Blog a few times now, but never yet on the CLR Blog. Basically, Code Contracts are a way to add preconditions, post-conditions, and object invariants to your code. The goal is to help you catch developer errors earlier in the cycle. In my Introduction to Code Contracts post, I g...
Kim Hamilton has a couple of excellent posts on the BCL Team blog. In the first post on Working with the ResourceManager, Kim talks about the basics of resource generation, constructing a ResourceManager and how resource fallback works. The post also covers debugging resource loading failures using Fusion logs, Reflector and Resview. In the...
The March installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is now available on line. This month we have an article from Justin Van Patten on Isolated Storage in Silverligth 2. You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles here. As always, please let us know if you have ...
As Andrew pointed out in his recent post, the February installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is now available on line. This month we have an article from Andrew Pardoe on Handling Corrupted State Exceptions.You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles here. As always, ...
You’ve seen the advice before—it’s not a good programming practice to catch System.Exception. Because managed exceptions are hierarchical, catching the top of the hierarchy—e.g., catch(Exception)—is an easy way to make sure that you catch all exceptions. But do you really want to catch all exceptions?...
A very common pattern in the usage of managed exception handling is that of catching an exception, inspecting it's type and rethrowing it once you realize it was not the exception you wanted to handle. Below is such an example (and should be avoided in preference to another approach described further below in the writeup) that uses CustomBase...
