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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 ...

NGen: Walk-through Series

May 3, 2010 May 3, 2010 05/3/10
CLR Team
The CLR Code Generation team blog has a series of new posts featuring hands-on style content around how to use the NGen technology and how to measure performance benefits from it. You can find the series here...

Visual Studio 2010 support with SQL Server

May 3, 2010 May 3, 2010 05/3/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We’ve been getting a few questions by our users about Visual Studio 2010’s support for SQL Server versions.  So I thought it would be good to address them here (when one person asks a question, there are probably others thinking the same question.) Visual Studio 2010 only supports SQL Server 2005+ Visual Studio 2010’s design time ...

General Performance Improvements in VS2010 since Beta2

April 30, 2010 Apr 30, 2010 04/30/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
When we released Beta2 in Oct 2009, there was a lot of customer excitement about the super cool features in VS 2010. However, one recurring complaint from customers was that the performance of VS 2010 was not on par with Orcas. Customers were experiencing general slowness in a lot of features that was hindering them with daily operations. We ...

Design View Performance Improvements

April 28, 2010 Apr 28, 2010 04/28/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Hi, I’m Dan Chartier, I work on the Web Tools designer and helped improve its performance in Visual Studio 2010. For some background, Visual Studio 2008 completely replaced the original trident (Internet Explorer) designer with the FrontPage designer (which is also used by Expression Web). While we gained many improvements with this change, ...

Debugging with the Right Tools

April 23, 2010 Apr 23, 2010 04/23/10
maoni
Wow, it’s been almost a year since I last blogged J We just shipped CLR V4.0. Yay!   An internal email thread prompted me to write this blog entry – one very powerful tool I wanted to point out when you need to debug/investigate issues is your debugger (if your debugger is also windbg/cdb that is J since that’s what I use and that...