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Getting more information than the exception class provides
We recently had a question about how to get more information than an exception’s type provides. The developer was trying to copy a file and didn’t ...
Tail Call Improvements in .Net Framework 4
Grant Richins has a post on the CLR Code Generation team blog that covers the work done to improve the x64 JIT to honor the "tail." instruction prefix, thereby ...
ASP.Net MVC for Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 Codeplex
ASP.Net MVC for Visual Studio 2010 is available for download here: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=28527.There is no new ...
Updates to FTP publishing in Visual Studio 2010
With VS2010, we introduced “web deployment tool” as the new publish method; at the same time, FTP publish is still available and supported in VS2010. In web...
Changes to the Publish dialog in web application project system in Visual Studio 2010
This blog explains some modification we made to the publish dialog in the web application project system, mainly to accommodate new web deployment tools from ...
What’s New for .Net Framework Security
Shawn Farkas, CLR security developer, has started a cool series of posts on what’s new in .NET Framework 4 security. If you’re doing any work ...
New Security Model: Moving to a Better Sandbox
For .Net Framework 4, we decided to remove the dependency on caspol and the policy levels and make things simpler. With this change, the default ...
In-Process Side by Side Part 2 – Common in-proc SxS scenarios
Update: The information in this blog post applies to pre beta-1 behavior and is not applicable to beta 2 and RTM. We will have more posts and documentation on ...
Multi-targeting of web projects using Visual Studio 2010 Beta1
The multi-targeting feature of Visual Studio 2010 allows web developers to develop web applications targeting ASP.NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0. The key benefit of ...