As one of the newest members of the BCL team, I wanted to take some time to introduce myself. I’m Matt Ellis and I’m the newest software design engineer on the team. Right now some of you might be experiencing déjà vu , since only a few months ago I was...

I’ve seen several questions over the last month or two about refreshing the status of certain properties on the Process and ServiceProcess classes. I’d like to take this opportunity to take a look at an example from both these classes and see how we can...

I just stared out working for this team and I’m very excited to be part of the larger .NET Framework group and particularly part of the CLR team. Like you, I’ve been a consumer of the CLR for 4 years now and so I’m very keen on being able to switch sides...

The .NET Framework System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex class maintains a cache of parsed regular expressions. The cache improves the performance of methods that create regular expressions, as the Regex class is able to avoid the cost of re-parsing and...

For out of memory exceptions, keep in mind that we can run out of memory in the native heaps in the process, as well as within the managed heap. There are at least four interesting causes: Lack of available pages of memory, due to limited resources...

One of our customers wondered recently if we represent negative zero in Decimal. At first glance, it doesn’t look to be the case as seen below; Decimal zero = Decimal .Zero; Decimal negativeZero_1 = new Decimal (0, 0, 0, true , 0); Decimal negativeZero_2...

The SerialPort class requires some “warming up” time for our users coming from VB6 or other non-.NET backgrounds. One of the main reasons is that SerialPort and its underlying BaseStream are designed to behave similarly to other .NET streams, which (for...

Extended Time Zone support is one of the most requested features in the BCL. System.TimeZone provides some basic support for converting from your machine Time Zone to UTC and vice versa, but it doesn’t have support to convert… say from Pacific Standard...