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I’m excited to announce – WebsiteSpark – a new program from Microsoft that provides software and support for building web sites, at no cost for 3 years.
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Software:
WebsiteSpark provides software licenses that you can use for 3 years at no upfront cost (there is only an exit fee of $100 payable upon exit from the ...
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Sorry for the delay in the post, but in case you haven’t seen it yet, the new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is available on line. This month we have an article from Justin Van Patten on What’s New in the .NET Framework 4 Base Class Library, covering mainly the new ...
Some time ago Jim Cheshire wrote a book on VWD 2008 and recently book publisher kindly allowed us to provide four chapters as free downloadable PDF files. The following chapters are available:
You can find link to download at VWD section on ASP.NET Web site (look for Visual Web Developer Books section at the right side) or download ...
(image) The Web Development Tools team is looking for an energetic talented program manager familiar with emerging web standards to design the next generation web authoring experience. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about tooling for web standards including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX and ASP.Net. An ideal candidate will ...
The IL Stub Diagnostic Tool enables real-time inspection of the contents of IL stubs. Developers now have a powerful tool to troubleshoot issues in interop marshalling, Introduction Jesse posted a great blog talking about the concept, history, and improvements of Intermediate Language (IL) stubs for CLR v4. He mentions The remainder of...
Every so often we get asked questions about the CLR’s support for exception filters. Why do some languages support them and others do not? Is it a good idea to add them to my new language? When should I use a filter vs. catch/rethrow? Etc. I’ll try to answer some of these questions for you here, and while I won’t go into all ...
When the CLR needs to transition between managed and native code – usually because of P\Invoke or COM interop – we need to generate marshaling stubs (little chunks of code) to handle that specific call and transform the data from managed to native format and back again. . These stubs are little pieces of code that are ...
If you’re the kind of early adopter who installs .NET 4 Beta 1 and also wants the latest and greatest operating system (Windows 7), please check out Scott Hanselman’s recent blog post http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VistaUsersUninstallVisualStudio2010Beta1BeforeUpgradingToWindows7.aspx While .NET 4 Beta 1 works well on both ...
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The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is available on line. This month we have an article from Melitta Andersen on Code Contracts. It provides an overview of the feature, and includes some recommendations the Base Class Libraries team figured out as they added Code ...
In the introductory post on CLR Binder (‘Understanding the Binder – Part 1’), we listed the set of steps that the CLR Binder follows, in order to locate an assembly and bind to it. On reading this, an obvious question comes to mind. What happens when all of these steps fail to locate the assembly? Does the binder simply...