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Have you installed the new spell checker add-in yet?

May 5, 2006 May 5, 2006 05/5/06

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Mikhail Arkhipov on our team recently developed a spell checker add-in to Visual Studio 2005 that allows you to spell check the contents of your ASP.NET or HTML page in HTML view.  You need to have Office 2003 installed on your machine in order for this feature to work.  See http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2006/04/17/...

Meet the Team – Danny Chen

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Hi, I'm Danny Chen, (2nd from the right, grey shirt, next to Pete).  Like Pete, I'm also an SDET for Visual Web Developer.  I've been at Microsoft for about 1 1/2 years.  Prior to shipping Visual Studio 2005, I was on the QA team for ASP.NET.  I really enjoy working with the extensibility features of Visual Studio and ASP.NET whether it's ...

Welcome to our blog!

April 21, 2006 Apr 21, 2006 04/21/06

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Welcome to the Web Development Tools team blog!  Recently we decided to create a team blog to ensure regular content to you from more of our team members.   Who are we, you ask?  Web Development Tools is the team that brought you the awesome Visual Web Developer Express product.  If you haven't downloaded this yet, what are you ...

Large Object Heap

April 19, 2006 Apr 19, 2006 04/19/06

maoni

LOH (Large Object Heap) contains objects that are 85,000 bytes or bigger (there’s also some objects that are less than 85,000 bytes that are allocated on the LOH by the runtime itself but usually they are very small and we’ll ignore them for this discussion).   The way LOH is implemented changed dramatically from 1.0 to 1.1. In 1.0 ...

Workstation GC for server applications?

March 1, 2006 Mar 1, 2006 03/1/06

maoni

In Using GC Efficiently – Part 2 I talked about different flavors of GC that exist in the CLR and how you choose which flavor is good for your applications, and I said that the Server GC flavor is designed for server applications. As with any performance tuning there are always exceptions – there’s no one-rule-fits-all. Recently I worked...

Thank you all for your comments!

February 28, 2006 Feb 28, 2006 02/28/06

maoni

I will write about the things you asked in my last blog entry's comments in the next few blog entries...

What do you want to know?

January 9, 2006 Jan 9, 2006 01/9/06

maoni

In my previous Using GC Efficiently entries I've basically covered all the big areas of GC in the CLR. There are of course a lot of things to write about GC but I want to keep GC users as my target audience, not GC designers/implementors. So I would really like to hear from you - our customers of the .NET Framework - if you have ...

So, what’s new in the CLR 2.0 GC?

October 4, 2005 Oct 4, 2005 10/4/05

maoni

Certainly that’s one of the most frequently asked questions I get (at the PDC too!). So since PDC already happened I can tell the rest of you about the new stuff happened in GC in CLR 2.0. The slides can be downloaded here. And I will be referring to some of the slides. I must apologize for your having to click on the link to see the slide ...

GC talk at the 2005 PDC

July 27, 2005 Jul 27, 2005 07/27/05

maoni

I will be giving a GC talk at the PDC this September. This talk is to give you a close up view of the CLR GC so I hope to see all you hard core .NET developers there! I will talk about some internal details of generations, allocations, different flavors of GC and fragmentation (what we have done in the GC and what you can do in your ...

Using GC Efficiently – Part 4

May 6, 2005 May 6, 2005 05/6/05

maoni

In this article I’ll talk about things you want to look for when you look at the managed heap in your applications to determine if you have a healthy heap. I’ll touch on some topics related to large heaps and the implications you want to be aware of when you have an application that maintains or has potential for the need to maintain a ...