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An easy solution for improving app launch performance

Brandon Bray October 18, 2012 Oct 18, 2012 10/18/12

Over the last ten years of building the .NET runtime, quite a number of assumptions have changed. Early on we could assume that most computer users only had one processor. Today, the assumption is that you have at least two processors. While including parallelism in an app for performance challenges most developers, what if that parallelism ...

.NET Framework 4.5 – Off to a great start

Brandon Bray October 17, 2012 Oct 17, 2012 10/17/12

The .NET Framework just passed 3 million downloads. During this time, we’ve been monitoring your experience, paying attention to both telemetry and social traffic. One of the first things I do every morning is read through all the Twitter traffic about .NET. Many others on the .NET team do the same. If you’ve raised an issue about .NET ...

Improvements in .NET Framework Setup for Developers, IT Pros, and Users

Brandon Bray October 12, 2012 Oct 12, 2012 10/12/12

The only experience most Microsoft customers have with the .NET Framework is the deployment and installation experience, which is why we spend so much time analyzing opportunities to improve it. For .NET 4.5, our goal was to build a product that was equivalent to a service pack with additional features. Our team studied how other products ...

Celebrating the Visual Studio 2012 launch with the release of a popular App

Brandon Bray September 12, 2012 Sep 12, 2012 09/12/12

Today, we’re happy to announce the launch of Visual Studio 2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5. You can read more about the Visual Studio 2012 launch on Jason Zander’s blog. We’ve been using the new version of Visual Studio for several months now to build .NET Framework apps for Windows, Windows Store, Windows Azure, and Window Server. ...

Announcing the release of .NET Framework 4.5 RTM – Product and Source Code

Brandon Bray August 15, 2012 Aug 15, 2012 08/15/12

Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. Updated – 8/16/2012: Added license information about the source code release. Today, we are happy to announce the availability of Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012. You can develop apps that will take advantage of all ...

.NET Framework 4.5 Talks from TechEd 2012 and aspConf

Brandon Bray August 9, 2012 Aug 9, 2012 08/9/12

The .NET Framework team is out at conferences all the time. We love getting to meet with you all to discuss the latest news about what we’re building and even better learning about what all of you want to build. Deon Herbert, a program manager on the .NET Framework project management team, pulled together the following article for all of...

New .NET Diagnostic info added to Process Explorer

Brandon Bray June 26, 2012 Jun 26, 2012 06/26/12

Productivity is the hallmark of programming with managed code. So often productivity boils down to figuring out why something isn’t working – diagnostics. The CLR provides one of the best foundations for diagnostics. In this post, Richard Lander – a program manager for the Common Language Runtime – shows how more than just ...

Async in 4.5: Enabling Progress and Cancellation in Async APIs

Brandon Bray June 6, 2012 Jun 6, 2012 06/6/12

The apps developers want to develop today are fast and fluid and the async features in .NET make this easier than ever. The world is also highly connected now which makes waiting for data a real concern for building great customer experiences. Alok Shriram from the .NET Base Class Library program management team continues his discussion on the...

Introducing the .NET Framework 4.5 RC

Brandon Bray May 31, 2012 May 31, 2012 05/31/12

Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is now unsupported. Today, we are announcing the .NET Framework 4.5 RC. We are also announcing Visual Studio 2012 RC, as you can read on Jason Zander’s and Soma’s blog. Please visit the Visual Studio 2012 RC downloads page to install both products. We ...

.NET for Metro style apps

Brandon Bray April 17, 2012 Apr 17, 2012 04/17/12

.NET is now a core part of several Microsoft platforms, and each has focused on specific subset of APIs. A lot of thought has been put into crafting each API surface area. Many of you have asked how the .NET APIs available for Metro style apps were chosen. In the following post, Immo Landwerth – a program manager on the CLR’s Core ...

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