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ASP.NET App Suspend – responsive shared .NET web hosting

October 9, 2013 Oct 9, 2013 10/9/13
.NET Team
This post introduces ASP.NET App Suspend, which is a game-changing feature in the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It radically changes the user experience and economic model for hosting large numbers of ASP.NET sites on a single machine. This post was written by Rich Lander, a Program Manager on the .NET team. (image) Sharing can be hard. In my early ...

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC

September 9, 2013 Sep 9, 2013 09/9/13
.NET Team
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported. Update: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM has been released and is available for download. The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC is now available. It comes with a go-live license, enabling you to deploy 4.5.1 apps in production. Here are the RC bits. ...

Announcing TraceEvent – Monitoring and Diagnostics for the Cloud

August 15, 2013 Aug 15, 2013 08/15/13
Immo Landwerth
In this post, Vance Morrison, software developer on the .NET Runtime team, will talk about the TraceEvent NuGet library we just shipped. -- Immo I am happy to report that we have just released the TraceEvent library on (prelease) NuGet. This library is an important part of the .NET, end-to-end, cloud scale diagnostics and monitoring story. It...

Announcing the EventSource NuGet Package – Write to the Windows Event Log

August 9, 2013 Aug 9, 2013 08/9/13
.NET Team
We are announcing the EventSource NuGet package, which enables fast app tracing to the Windows Event Log, including in production. This post was written by Cosmin Radu, a software developer on the .NET Runtime team We know that you want to build high-quality software. That can be a challenging task if your desktop or web app interacts ...

Documentation updates for .NET 4.5.1

August 7, 2013 Aug 7, 2013 08/7/13
.NET Team
This post describes the changes that we’ve made to .NET Framework documentation for the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Cheryl Simmons, who works on the .NET Framework documentation team. In the recent preview release of the .NET Framework 4.5.1, we changed the way we update the documentation for the .NET Framework, refreshed ...

Documentation updates for .NET 4.5.1

August 7, 2013 Aug 7, 2013 08/7/13
.NET Team
This post describes the changes that we’ve made to .NET Framework documentation for the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Cheryl Simmons, who works on the .NET Framework documentation team. In the recent preview release of the .NET Framework 4.5.1, we changed the way we update the documentation for the .NET Framework, refreshed ...

Documentation updates for .NET 4.5.1

August 7, 2013 Aug 7, 2013 08/7/13
.NET Team
This post describes the changes that we’ve made to .NET Framework documentation for the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It was written by Cheryl Simmons, who works on the .NET Framework documentation team. In the recent preview release of the .NET Framework 4.5.1, we changed the way we update the documentation for the .NET Framework, refreshed ...

Got a need for speed? .NET apps start faster.

August 6, 2013 Aug 6, 2013 08/6/13
.NET Team
This post was written by Rich Lander, who works as a Program Manager on the .NET Framework. He worked on AutoNGEN for Windows 8. This post focuses on how technologies such as Native Image Generator (NGEN), the .NET Framework Optimization Service (mscorsvw), AutoNGEN, and compilation in the cloud have improved the startup performance of .NET ...

Wondering why mscorsvw.exe has high CPU usage? You can speed it up.

August 6, 2013 Aug 6, 2013 08/6/13
.NET Team
This post was written by Rich Lander, a Program Manager on the .NET Framework Team. It was written for people who want to understand why mscorsvw.exe is running on their machines and want to know how to speed it up. Have you noticed that your machine is slowing down, and you’ve looked in Task Manager to find that mscorsvw.exe is the ...

Got a need for speed? .NET apps start faster.

August 6, 2013 Aug 6, 2013 08/6/13
.NET Team
This post was written by Rich Lander, who works as a Program Manager on the .NET Framework. He worked on AutoNGEN for Windows 8. This post focuses on how technologies such as Native Image Generator (NGEN), the .NET Framework Optimization Service (mscorsvw), AutoNGEN, and compilation in the cloud have improved the startup performance of .NET ...