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.NET Framework 4.5 Talks from TechEd 2012 and aspConf
The .NET Framework team is out at conferences all the time. We love getting to meet with you all to discuss the latest news about what we’re building and ...
Plans regarding Website projects and Web Deployment Projects
The release of Visual Studio 2012 is right around the corner. If you’ve been following our blog/twitter then you may know that many of the Web related ...
What’s new in GC in CLR 4.5 from our team blog
This is now live from CLR's team blog. This paints a more complete picture than what I talked about in my "What's new in 4.5 GC" Channel 9 interview ...
The .NET Framework 4.5 includes new garbage collector enhancements for client and server apps
What makes managed code, “managed”? Most people would point to the garbage collector. Automatic memory management makes a tremendous difference in ...
Visual Studio 2012 RC Web Tooling Extensions update
If you have been following our blog and twitter accounts then you most likely have heard that some of the Web components of Visual Studio 2012 are now “Out of...
Targeting Multiple Platforms with Portable Code: Overview
As programming with .NET has become prevalent on all Microsoft platforms, targeting multiple platforms at once becomes a critical desire amongst developers. In...
New .NET Diagnostic info added to Process Explorer
Productivity is the hallmark of programming with managed code. So often productivity boils down to figuring out why something isn’t working – diagnostics...
Visual Studio 2010 Web Publish Updates
Last week we rolled out some updates for our Visual Studio 2010 Web Publishing Experience. This post will give you an overview of the new features which we ...
ASP.NET providers and SQL Azure
We have two sets of ASP.NET providers which currently exist; the ASP.NET SQL providers, and the ASP.NET Universal Providers. In VS 2010 the SQL providers were ...