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CLR 4: Making the AssemblyResolve event more useful

July 15, 2009 Jul 15, 2009 07/15/09
CLR Team
 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...

Take the .Net 4 Beta1 survey

July 14, 2009 Jul 14, 2009 07/14/09
CLR Team
 Here is a survey to understand you think about .Net 4 Beta1, and to get a sense of the level of satisfaction, particularly while trying to upgrade existing managed applications to CLR 4, or while creating new CLR 4 applications. This survey should take you about 20 minutes to complete. Here is the link to the survey...

Take the .Net 4 Beta1 survey

July 14, 2009 Jul 14, 2009 07/14/09
CLR Team
 Here is a survey to understand you think about .Net 4 Beta1, and to get a sense of the level of satisfaction, particularly while trying to upgrade existing managed applications to CLR 4, or while creating new CLR 4 applications. This survey should take you about 20 minutes to complete. Here is the link to the survey...

Meet the CLR Team, learn about CLR 4

July 14, 2009 Jul 14, 2009 07/14/09
CLR Team
Here is your chance to get the scoop straight from the proverbial horse’s mouth. Join the CLR team for an interactive Live Meeting session on Friday, July 17th 2009, and find out what’s new in CLR 4. Apart from an overview of what’s coming up in CLR 4. we will specifically be covering Garbage Collection, NGen and Performance...

CLR Inside Out – Building Tuple

July 1, 2009 Jul 1, 2009 07/1/09
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 Matt Ellis on Building Tuple.  It provides one example of how a new type makes it into the base class libraries. You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles ...

Check out the following on our Tips and Tricks Blog

June 30, 2009 Jun 30, 2009 06/30/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Tip#66: Did you know... how to insert quotes values automatically while typing the attrib values?Tip #67: Did you know the list of ASP.Net MVC shortcuts?Tip #68 Did you know… How simple it is to attach an existing style sheet to your web page?Tip #69: Did you know…The keyboard shortcut for View in Browser?Tip #70: Did you know...

Enabling CAS Policy Compatibility Mode for a Project

June 24, 2009 Jun 24, 2009 06/24/09
CLR Team
If you’re migrating a VS project over to VS 2010 Beta1 and you are calling code that is passing Evidence objects to the runtime expecting security policy resolution, or if you’re using a permission Deny, you may run into the following exception: NotSupportedException: This method uses CAS policy, which has been obsoleted by the .NET ...