System.Threading.ThreadAbortException is just plain weird. For instance, most exceptions happen because of something code did on its own thread: even asynchronous exceptions are caused by something your code did on the current thread. (Note for the nitpickers: gamma rays can cause a bit in memory to flip randomly, bringing about ...
We have started a new series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008. Over the course of next few weeks we will be adding many more videos to this series. These video tutorials will range in complexity from beginner to intermediate and will help Web developers build everything from simple Web applications to full featured Web ...
Wcftestclient can be used to debug a WCF service. Here are two ways to enable wcftestclient debugging in Visual Studio VS2008 SP1 web applications. Tradition way: In Web application project property page, web tab, one can specify start external program and command line argument for IIS based WCF: 1. Check Use Local IIS Web server and create...
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The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is now available on line. This month we have an article from Surupa Biswas on Optimizations In .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles here. As always, please let us know if you have topics you...
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For everyone who attended MIX this year, we hope it was a lot of fun.
Brandon from our team, gave a talk on "Going Inside Microsoft Silverlight: Exploring the Core CLR" at MIX09 last week. The talk covers how the desktop CLR was slimmed down to be used for Silverlight, and in the process, covers Core CLR's architecture (...
Assumption: This write-up assumes that you are familiar with the managed exception handling constructs (e.g. catch, filter, fault, finally). If not, you may want to read this and also refer to the CLI specification. Managed exception handling exposes constructs to handle an exception (e.g. catch and filter blocks) and also to ...
A hotfix is now available for issues most commonly described as "I make changes in Design view but Source does not get updated" and "After certain actions designer inserts a lot of in the page". This hotfix can be downloaded from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB967253/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2845 http...
It has been a few months since our last release of TlbImp on CodePlex. We recently released a new version of TlbImp – please visit the Codeplex page for this tool to find out more.
In this release, we’ve introduced two major features:
1. Ruled-based customization of interop assemblies
2. TlbImp regression test tool
Ruled-based ...
Juan Rivera from JCX Software and the developer of VS.PHP has added support for Silverlight 3. If you’re a PHP developer this is very cool news.VS.PHP is a plug-in for Visual Studio that brings the rich development environment of Visual Studio to PHP. In addition to the great intellisense Visual Studio provides for JScript, ...