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Update 4.0.2 for the Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is now unsupported. With .NET 4, we’ve focused on bringing certain features to market through updates without having to wait for the .NET 4.5 release. This post covers what the latest platform update has to offer. Vivek Mishra from the .NET Servicing team authored the following. -- Brandon The .NET Framework team is excited to announce that Update 4.0.2 for the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 is now available. This is a platform update that offers a set of additional functionality on top of the .NET Framework 4. In this release, we...
Large Object Heap Improvements in .NET 4.5
Garbage collection is one of premiere features of the .NET managed coding platform. As the platform has become more capable, we’re seeing developers allocate more and more large objects. Since large objects are managed differently than small objects, we’ve heard a lot of feedback requesting improvement. Today’s post is by Surupa Biswas and Maoni Stephens from the garbage collection feature team. -- BrandonThe CLR manages two different heaps for allocation, the small object heap (SOH) and the large object heap (LOH). Any allocation greater than or equal to 85,000 bytes goes on the LOH. Copying la...
JavaScript Reference group Dedicated Worker
Travis Leithead showed a video "Building responsive apps and sites with HTML5 web workers" in BUILD. When editing "Dedicated worker" JavaScript file in Visual Studio 11 Developer's Preview, we need to add the following line in the beginning of the file to get the proper JavaScript web walker IntelliSense in the editor: "Dedicated Worker" is a reference Group defined in the Tools->Options->Text Editor->JavaScript->IntelliSense->References. It contains a JavaScript file which contains all the web walker JavaScript HTML5 objects. You can then see IntelliSense, such as importScripts: Also, Int...
Compatibility of .NET Framework 4.5
Fundamentals were a big part of our focus while building .NET 4.5. We divided fundamentals into seven areas called “tenets”. One of these tenets is compatibility. Today’s post is by Manish Agnihotri, a program manager who is driving compatibility across the .NET Framework. -- Brandon Editor's update: we've added more discussion about the compatibility of .NET Framework 4.5 in a recent post on October 17, 2012. .NET Framework 4.5 is an in-place update that replaces .NET Framework 4 (rather than a side-by-side installation). Our goal is for .NET 4.5 to be fully backward compatible with appli...
Page Inspector for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview
The upcoming version of Visual Studio introduces a number of improvements focused on diagnosing your Web Applications. One of these is the new Page Inspector. Page Inspector is a new tool that brings browser diagnostics tools into Visual Studio and provides an integrated experience between the browser, ASP.NET, and source code. Using Page Inspector, you can inspect elements in the integrated browser and see exactly which file and lines of code generated that element (HTML literal content and server-side code). It also comes with a DOM Visualizer and CSS Tools in which you can modify the properties and see the ch...
Introducing .NET Framework 4.5
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is now unsupported. Last week at the BUILD conference, we had the pleasure of announcing the next version of the .NET Framework and releasing a developer preview at the same time. We have so many new things in .NET 4.5 to discuss with our developer community – we’re excited to have this opportunity to begin a discussion about each of them. At the BUILD conference, many talks provided a glimpse of what .NET 4.5 has to offer. These are some of our favorite talks: The .NET platform is crucial to s...
So, what’s new in the CLR 4.5 GC?
Last time I posted a "So, what's new" entry was when we release 4.0 ~3 years ago (can't believe it's already been that long..). Now I get to talk about what's new in the 4.5 GC. Actually I just talked about this with Channel 9 and here's the link to the video: https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Maoni-Stephens-CLR-45-Server-Background-GC Enjoy!
New HTML Editor feature in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview has many new HTML editor features, including the following: Scott Gu's Blog: From ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Whitepaper Discussed a little bit more here than in the whitepaper: Smart indentation The indentation of HTML elements has been tightened up so the cursor will always be placed the right place after hitting Enter when inside any empty HTML tag. When the user hits Enter, the closing div tag is moved 2 lines down and indented correctly according to the opening tag. The cursor is ...
New CSS editor features in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview
The CSS Editor for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview is a complete rewrite of the 2010 version, featuring excellent performance and stability. As soon as you start to edit a CSS file or a style block embedded in a web page, you'll feel the difference! CSS 3.0 has expanded the richness and complexity of style sheets considerably, and the new editor steps up to make the change not just manageable, but productive. Select the CSS 1.0, 2.1, or 3.0 schema to work with (default is 3.0) and start typing. The first thing you'll see is an overwhelming number of properties available, over 250. Even more appear if you star...