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Announcing a new CLR Team Codeplex Project: CLR Runtime Activation

February 16, 2010 Feb 16, 2010 02/16/10
CLR Team
This Codeplex site will feature demos, samples, and helper libraries related to the selection and activation of the CLR: http://clractivation.codeplex.com/With .Net Framework 4 and VS 2010 the new ability to load multiple versions of the runtime has changed the way a version is chosen for any particular piece of managed code and gives ...

Free Sandbox Hosting for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC from Discount ASP.NET

February 15, 2010 Feb 15, 2010 02/15/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Discount ASP.Net has updated their Hosting Sandbox for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC.http://www.discountasp.net/press/2010_02_16_free-asp.net-4.0-RC-hosting.aspxTo learn more about the new Web Deployment features in Visual Studio 2010 check out this Step by Step Walkthrough on Web 1-Click Publish with VS 2010To provide feedback on ...

CLR Inside Out – Formatting and Parsing Time Intervals

February 15, 2010 Feb 15, 2010 02/15/10
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 Ron Petrusha on Formatting and Parsing Time Intervals in the .NET Framework 4.  The article contains details on new parsing and formatting support for TimeSpan values, ...

Visual Studio 2010 clean application level web.config

February 10, 2010 Feb 10, 2010 02/10/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
This post introduces you to a small improvement that has been made in Visual Studio 2010 & .NET 4 to reduce the size of the ASP.NET application level web.config 3.0 and 3.5 web.config As ASP.NET technology evolved, the application level Web.config had new things added to it. Since the earlier frameworks were using the same set of machine...

Visual Studio 2010 RC public download available now!

February 10, 2010 Feb 10, 2010 02/10/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
It’s finally here.  Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 release candidate is available for everyone to download now.To download the public RC of Visual Studio 2010 go the RC landing page:  Since the beta we’ve been focused on performance improvements, reducing memory requirements, increasing stability and fixing customer ...

Visual Studio 2010 RC Feedback Channel for Web Tools

February 9, 2010 Feb 9, 2010 02/9/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
As you probably heard the Visual Studio 2010 RC is currently available for MSDN subscribers! You can download it from here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx. General public release is slated for Wed.The Web Development Tools Team has setup a DL that we would like you to use to send us direct feedback on anything web ...

Sharing Silverlight Assemblies with .NET Apps

December 1, 2009 Dec 1, 2009 12/1/09
CLR Team
At the recent PDC, Scott Guthrie announced in his Silverlight 4 keynote that we had implemented a new feature, to enable developers to share certain assemblies between Silverlight and .NET. There are many differences between Silverlight and full .NET including WPF, and this new feature doesn’t solve those differences – in those cases, you...

CLR Inside Out – In-Process Side-by-Side

December 1, 2009 Dec 1, 2009 12/1/09
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 Jesse Kaplan and Luiz Fernando Santos on In-Process Side-by-Side.  The article contains details on this new .NET Framework 4 feature and the problems it solves.  It...