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In-Proc SxS and Migration Quick Start

June 23, 2010 Jun 23, 2010 06/23/10
CLR Team
This post is meant to help you understand what runtime in-process side-by-side is, how to think about it, how to use it, and how it affects application and component migration to the .NET 4 Runtime. This post is relevant to you if you use native runtime activation APIs, depend on specific runtime activation behaviors, or use mixed mode ...

CLR Inside Out – F# Fundamentals

June 17, 2010 Jun 17, 2010 06/17/10
CLR Team
(image) The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN Magazine is now available on line.  This month we have an article from Luke Hoban of the F# team on F# Fundamentals.  The article gives an overview of the language, and details how F# takes advantage of various features in the CLR. You can find a list...

Web Custom Control Behavior and Authoring

June 10, 2010 Jun 10, 2010 06/10/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
  Some Best Practices and Guidance for Web Control Vendors Targeting Visual Studio The goal of this post is to provide guidance for control vendors on best practices for writing custom controls with regard to their behavior in Visual Studio. It is designed to give vendors insight into how Visual Studio behaves when performing common ...

Survey – ASP.NET development in Visual Studio 2010

June 7, 2010 Jun 7, 2010 06/7/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Are you currently doing ASP.NET development in Visual Studio 2010? If so, we would love to hear your feedback!We have created an online survey that will only take a few minutes to complete. Click here to take survey All feedback will be carefully considered and thoroughly reviewed during our planning for future release such as VS 2010 SP1....

CLR Inside Out – Production Diagnostics Improvements in CLR 4

May 7, 2010 May 7, 2010 05/7/10
CLR Team
(image)   The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN Magazine is now available on line.  This month we have an article from Jon Langdon on Production Diagnostics Improvements in CLR 4.  This article talks about some of the new diagnostics features we added in .NET Framework 4 and focuses on how ...

Another Error Creating Control in the Design View with Object Reference Not Set in Visual Studio 2010

May 6, 2010 May 6, 2010 05/6/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In a previous blog, Controls State: "Error Creating Control" in the Design View in Visual Studio 2010, I have discussed about an Error Creating Control issue related to accessing the Session state in the OnInit() method. Since then, I have discovered that the Error Creating Control will also show in the design view if we try to ...