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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. ...
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 ...
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), ...
The Dynamic Language Runtime allows you to implement a dynamic language (such as Ruby or Python) on top of the CLR. There are a lot of challenges to making everything work right. One particularly difficult aspect was enabling Ruby to attach arbitrary "properties" to instanced .NET managed objects at runtime. If a Ruby developer sets an ...
This is the first in a series of posts where we discuss the reasoning behind “obsoleting” specific APIs.
If you use AppDomain.AppendPrivatePath, or look at MSDN, you’ll notice it’s obsolete. This frustrates people because the alternative suggested (AppDomainSetup.PrivateBinPath) requires you to do something ...
Managed exception handling is built on Windows OS’s Structured Exception Handling, commonly referred to as SEH (to learn more about SEH, please read Matt Pietrek’s excellent article first). This implies that CLR understands how to interoperate between SEH and managed exception systems, which is a very key point since SEH is based upon the ...
Managed exception handling is built on Windows OS’s Structured Exception Handling, commonly referred to as SEH (to learn more about SEH, please read Matt Pietrek’s excellent article first). This implies that CLR understands how to interoperate between SEH and managed exception systems, which is a very key point since SEH is based upon the ...
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The May installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is now available on line. This month we have an article from Aarthi Ramamurthy and Mark Miller on Understanding The CLR Binder. It covers some best practices for assembly binding and loading using the CLR.
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We have earlier discussed about Web Deployment and Web Packaging quite a bit, today I wanted to dive into web.config transformation. If you would like to check out the other topics please read through the earlier blog posts below: Usually web applications go through a chain of server deployments before being finally being ...
Eric Eilebrecht, a developer on our team, has just started a multi-part series on TheadPool improvements in the upcoming CLR v4.0. The first post is pretty fascinating and begins with a brief introduction on thread pools and it's design. The post deals with changes in thread pool's design, due to increasing core counts today. In...