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In-Process Side by Side (Part1)

One of the new features in CLR 4 is In-Process Side-by-side (Inproc SxS) – a feature that lets you use multiple versions of .NET in the same process. For applications that use add-ins (particularly COM add-ins), in-proc SxS lets us provide a level of compatibility never before possible. If you write applications that use an add-in model (for...

In-Process Side by Side (Part1)

One of the new features in CLR 4 is In-Process Side-by-side (Inproc SxS) – a feature that lets you use multiple versions of .NET in the same process. For applications that use add-ins (particularly COM add-ins), in-proc SxS lets us provide a level of compatibility never before possible. If you write applications that use an add-in model (for...

Free Web Hosting to try ASP.NET 4 Beta1, VS 2010 Beta1 and MS Web Deployment Tool RC1

Today we are announcing the availability of FREE HOSTING accounts for web developers to try out the new feature sets of Visual Studio 2010 Beta1, ASP.NET 4 Beta1 and Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (MsDeploy) RC1… VS 2010 has great set of features on deploying web applications seamlessly…   One of the key features is the ability ...

CLR Inside Out – Memory Usage Auditing For .NET Applications

(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 Subramanian Ramaswamy and Vance Morrison on Memory Usage Auditing For .NET Applications. You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles here.  As always, please let...

.Net Framework Performance Survery

Everyone has probably dealt with an annoying performance issue at some point or the other. Performance optimization is a hard problem and we could sure use some help from you. We have a survey posted at the CLR and Framework Performance blog over here. The survey contains questions assessing your level of satisfaction specific ...

More Channel 9 Videos on CLR 4

And the videos keep coming in! We have Shawn Farkas who works on the security model, talking about the new managed security model. Check out the video here. And then we have Surupa Biswas, from the CLR Code Generation team, talking about the new Targeted Patching work in CLR 4. The link to the video is here...

Improvements to NGen in CLR 4

Surupa Biswas has a post in the CodeGen team blog on new features in NGen coming out as part of CLR 4. The post covers NGen SxS (that's side-by-side) and multi-proc NGen, and goes into detail on the work that went into making Targeted Patching possible. Read the post here...

More Channel 9 videos

We have more Channel 9 videos from the CLR team for your enjoyment! The Base Class Libraries (BCL) team talks about some of the new features in the next version of BCL over here. We have Maoni Stephens and Andrew Pardoe talking about Background Garbage Collection over here. The CLR Debugger team talks about new debugging and profiling ...

Channel9 Video on Background GC

A couple of weeks back my PM and I did a channel9 video on Background GC. Take a look: https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Maoni-Stephens-and-Andrew-Pardoe-CLR-4-Inside-Background-GC...