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.NET Native Deep Dive: Optimizing with Runtime Directives

May 24, 2014 May 24, 2014 05/24/14

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This post was authored by Morgan Brown, a Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. It is the fifth post in a series of five about Runtime Directives. Please see the first posts in this series, Dynamic Features in Static Code, Help! I Hit a MissingMetadataException!, Help! I Didn't Hit a MissingMetadataException!, and Making Your ...

.NET Native Deep Dive: Making Your Library Great

May 23, 2014 May 23, 2014 05/23/14

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This post was authored by Morgan Brown, a Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. It is the fourth post in a series of five about Runtime Directives. Please read the first post in this series, Dynamic Functionality in Static Code, before reading this post. As a .NET library author, you don’t necessarily have to do anything...

.NET Native Deep Dive: Help! I Didn’t Hit a MissingMetadataException!

May 22, 2014 May 22, 2014 05/22/14

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This post was authored by Morgan Brown, a Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. It is the third post in a series of five about Runtime Directives. Please see the two posts in this series, Dynamic Features in Static Code and Help! I Hit a MissingMetadataException!, before reading this post. Sometimes the only thing worse than ...

One developer’s experience with .NET Native

May 22, 2014 May 22, 2014 05/22/14

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Helge Mahrt has published an interesting blog post on his experience using .NET Native on his Windows Store app, 499+1px. The post includes a first-level performance analysis. (image) Check out Helge's post...

.NET Native Deep Dive: Help! I Hit a MissingMetadataException!

May 21, 2014 May 21, 2014 05/21/14

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This post was authored by Morgan Brown, a Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. It is the second post in a series of five about Runtime Directives. Please see the first post in this series, Dynamic Features in Static Code, before reading this post. So you've started out with .NET Native and you're seeing great performance ...

.NET Native Deep Dive: Dynamic Features in Static Code

May 20, 2014 May 20, 2014 05/20/14

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This post was authored by Morgan Brown, a Software Development Engineer on the .NET Native team. It is the first post in a series of five about Runtime Directives. If you've read our previous blog posts on .NET Native, you might be wondering how all of this works. We've discussed the performance benefits of .NET Native and dug into the tool-...

The .NET Native Tool-Chain

May 9, 2014 May 9, 2014 05/9/14

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This post was authored by Xy Ziemba, Program Manager on the .NET Native team. At BUILD, we announced .NET Native Preview. .NET Native is a compilation technology and a small runtime that allow .NET applications to start up to 60% faster and have a smaller memory footprint. We've previously discussed at a high-level how .NET Native provides ...

.NET Native Performance

April 24, 2014 Apr 24, 2014 04/24/14

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This post was authored by Xy Ziemba, the Program Manager for .NET Native performance, and Andrew Pardoe, Program Manager on the .NET runtime team. In our previous blog post introducing .NET Native, we talked about how .NET Native gives you the performance of C++ with the productivity of C#. Putting that in quantitative terms, Windows Store ...