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ThreadPool improvements in CLR v4.0

CLR TeamMay 4, 2009May 4, 200905/4/09

Eric Eilebrecht, a developer on our team, has just started a multi-part series on TheadPool improvements in the upcoming CLR v4.0. The first post is pretty fascinating and begins with a brief introduction on thread pools and it's design. The post deals with changes in thread pool's design, due to increasing core counts today. In...

ThreadAbortException

CLR TeamApril 28, 2009Apr 28, 200904/28/09

 System.Threading.ThreadAbortException is just plain weird. For instance, most exceptions happen because of something code did on its own thread: even asynchronous exceptions are caused by something your code did on the current thread. (Note for the nitpickers: gamma rays can cause a bit in memory to flip randomly, bringing about ...

CLR Inside Out – Optimizations In .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

CLR TeamApril 6, 2009Apr 6, 200904/6/09

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...

CLR Inside Out – Optimizations In .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

CLR TeamApril 6, 2009Apr 6, 200904/6/09

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...

MIX09 talk on Core CLR

CLR TeamMarch 26, 2009Mar 26, 200903/26/09

 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 (...

MIX09 talk on Core CLR

CLR TeamMarch 26, 2009Mar 26, 200903/26/09

 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 (...

Exceptions out of Fault/Finally

CLR TeamMarch 23, 2009Mar 23, 200903/23/09

 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 ...

Exceptions out of Fault/Finally

CLR TeamMarch 23, 2009Mar 23, 200903/23/09

 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 ...

New TlbImp Release on CodePlex – Full Customization of Interop Assemblies

CLR TeamMarch 19, 2009Mar 19, 200903/19/09

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 ...

New TlbImp Release on CodePlex – Full Customization of Interop Assemblies

CLR TeamMarch 19, 2009Mar 19, 200903/19/09

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 ...