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Check out the CLR Lead Architect’s New Blog

November 22, 2006 Nov 22, 2006 11/22/06

maoni

Many people know Patrick Dussud by his outstanding work on Garbage Collection. But did you know he was one of the founders of the CLR? In his intro blog entry he talks about how the CLR came to life. I am sure it will be a great read for those of you who are curious about it...

Visual Web Developer Starter Kits

November 16, 2006 Nov 16, 2006 11/16/06

Web Development Tools Microsoft

  Many of you are probably aware of Visual Web Developer/Visual Studio web site starter kits that are available online.  If you have not seen or used these yet, they are complete end-to-end working web site templates that you can either use a starting point for your project or as a learning aid to get more familiar with&...

My application seems to hang. What do I do? – Part 2

November 14, 2006 Nov 14, 2006 11/14/06

maoni

Last time I talked about the hang scenario where your process is taking 0 CPU and the CPU is taking by other process(es) on the same machine.   The next scenario is your process is taking 0 CPU and the CPU is barely used by other processes.   As one of the readers correctly pointed out, this is very likely because you have a ...

Live from Redmond – webcast series

November 10, 2006 Nov 10, 2006 11/10/06

Web Development Tools Microsoft

  Over the past month, we have been doing a round of webcasts titled “Live from Redmond”.   These are technology presentations made by team members working on the various products.  You can get more details on these from Simon Muzio’s blog.  The upcoming web talks are listed below.  In particular, I’d like ...

Visual Web Developer Express turns one!

November 9, 2006 Nov 9, 2006 11/9/06

Web Development Tools Microsoft

This week marks the first anniversary of Visual Studio 2005 and the Express editions.  Almost a year ago to the day - 11/7/2005 to be precise - was the day we launched Visual Studio 2005.  That also marked the debut of the free Express Editions that have since proven to be a huge hit in the developer community.  ...

Beta2 of ASP.NET AJAX (formerly Atlas) has shipped!

November 9, 2006 Nov 9, 2006 11/9/06

Web Development Tools Microsoft

  This Monday we shipped Beta2 of the ASP.NET AJAX framework – formerly known as “Atlas”.  You can visit the ASP.NET AJAX website or Scott Guthrie’s blog article for details.  The bits can be downloaded from here.   We have made sure that the already shipped version of Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Web Developer...

Correlating the output of !eeheap -gc and !address

November 8, 2006 Nov 8, 2006 11/8/06

maoni

!address is a very powerful debugger command. It shows you exactly what your VM space looks like. If you already got the output from the !sos.eeheap -gc command (refer to this article for usage on sos), for example: 0:003> !eeheap -gcNumber of GC Heaps: 1generation 0 starts at 0x01245078generation 1 starts at 0x0124100cgeneration 2 starts ...

New MSDN Article – Investigating Memory Issues

October 23, 2006 Oct 23, 2006 10/23/06

maoni

We have a new MSDN article out in the November issue that talks about investigating managed memory issues. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/11/CLRInsideOut/default.aspx?loc=en Take a look and let me know what you think. Oh, and it's also in 6 other languages (German, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese and Chinese) ...

Visual Studio 2005 vs. Dreamweaver 8

October 16, 2006 Oct 16, 2006 10/16/06

Web Development Tools Microsoft

Last week, a new set of videos comparing Visual Studio 2005 with Macromedia Dreamweaver8 became available.  You can view these videos here.  This series shows how you can use Visual Studio 2005 to build, debug and deploy web sites more effortlessly than Dreamweaver8.The free Visual Web Developer Express features most of the...

My application seems to hang. What do I do? – Part 1

September 28, 2006 Sep 28, 2006 09/28/06

maoni

Defining “hang” is a good place to start.   When people say “hang” they could mean all sorts of things. When I say “hang” I mean the process is not making progress – the threads in the process are either blocked (eg. deadlocked, or not scheduled because of threads from other processes) or executing code (madly) but not doing...