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CLR Inside Out – Memory Usage Auditing For .NET Applications

June 1, 2009 Jun 1, 2009 06/1/09
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 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

May 29, 2009 May 29, 2009 05/29/09
CLR Team
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

May 29, 2009 May 29, 2009 05/29/09
CLR Team
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

May 27, 2009 May 27, 2009 05/27/09
CLR Team
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

May 27, 2009 May 27, 2009 05/27/09
CLR Team
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

May 26, 2009 May 26, 2009 05/26/09
maoni
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...

Tail Call Improvements in CLR 4

May 21, 2009 May 21, 2009 05/21/09
CLR Team
Now that .Net 4 Beta1 is out, you'll see a number of posts on this blog covering new CLR features in CLR 4. Grant Richins, a developer on our team, wrote a post on tail call improvements in CLR 4 at the CLR Code Generation blog. The post deals with JIT ETW Tracing in .Net 4 and specifically covers new ETW events exposed by the JIT. ...

Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.Net 4.0 (Beta1)

May 20, 2009 May 20, 2009 05/20/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
The public release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available and can be downloaded here. This is one of the most compelling updates to Visual Studio we’ve seen in years.  The entire IDE has been refreshed with a new look and all the code editors including the HTML and ASPX editors have replaced with a new extensible editor based ...

Channel 9 Video – Vance Morrison: CLR Through the Years

May 19, 2009 May 19, 2009 05/19/09
CLR Team
Vance Morrison, a CLR architect, recently gave an interview to Channel 9 where he walks through the history of the CLR (he's been on our team since it's very beginning), the upcoming version, his favorite features in CLR v4, and what the future looks like. He also talks about concurrency (and the role that CLR plays), ...