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.NET at MonkeySpace Europe, June 9-11

May 8, 2014 May 8, 2014 05/8/14

Immo Landwerth

This post was written by Daniel Plaisted, a member of the .NET Framework team who will be at MonkeySpace. MonkeySpace is the “official cross platform and open-source .NET conference.” This year, MonkeySpace Europe will be held June 9th-11th in Dublin, Ireland. Since it’s a conference specifically focused on open source and ...

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.2

May 5, 2014 May 5, 2014 05/5/14

The .NET Fundamentals Team

Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the latest version of the NET Framework. We are happy to announce the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5.2. It is a highly compatible, in-place update to the .NET Framework 4, 4.5 and 4.5.1. ...

Get your libraries ready for Windows Phone 8.1

April 30, 2014 Apr 30, 2014 04/30/14

Immo Landwerth

Two weeks ago, we released the Windows Phone preview for developers. In this post, I’ll cover what this means for library and app developers. (image) What this means for library developers As a .NET developer you can target Windows Phone 8.1 via two platforms: Apps that target Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 can consume existing ...

Sharing code across platforms

April 21, 2014 Apr 21, 2014 04/21/14

Immo Landwerth

At Build we announced two great ways to re-use your code: the new Universal Windows apps, and the improved portable class libraries. They both help you reuse code across platforms. In this post, I’ll describe both options and how you can choose between them. Overview Why two options? The short answer is that shared projects are about ...

The JIT finally proposed. JIT and SIMD are getting married.

April 7, 2014 Apr 7, 2014 04/7/14

Immo Landwerth

Processor speed no longer follows Moore’s law. So in order to optimize the performance of your applications, it’s increasingly important to embrace parallelization. Or, as Herb Sutter phrased it, the free lunch is over. You may think that task-based programming or offloading work to threads is already the answer. While multi-...

The Next Generation of .NET

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14

.NET Team

At Build 2014 this week, we announced the next generation of .NET. The next generation will focus and deliver on two main themes: Core Innovation and cross-device apps. These themes are a direct result of your feedback, asking for new features in .NET and to make it easier to use .NET for all your apps. At Build 2014, we are releasing...

Announcing .NET Native Preview

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14

.NET Team

This post was written by Subramanian Ramaswamy and Andrew Pardoe, Senior Program Managers on the .NET Native team. We’re thrilled to announce the first release of .NET Native. Windows Store apps start up to 60% faster with .NET Native and have a much smaller memory footprint. Our first release is a Developer Preview that allows you to ...

Available Now: Preview of Project “Orleans” – Cloud Services at Scale

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14

.NET Team

This post was written by Niklas Gustafsson, Principal Program Manager on the Cloud Platform Tooling Team Today, at Build 2014, we are announcing the preview release of a cloud programming model under the codename “Orleans”. This project originated in Microsoft Research. Project “Orleans” provides a straightforward approach to building...