We are done! Today the author team for the SLAR Vol2 dropped the manuscript to Addison-Wesley. I gotta say it took a lot longer than I expected to complete the original SLAR , but I am happy with where we ended up. This completes the CLI standard library...

A couple of people have noted a little perf issue with the installer we used for the WinFX CTP… Our resident MSDN magician did the magic to post the raw ISO image… so if you tried before to install this CTP, please try again. Because of the fun of being...

Recently I spent some time working on some Design Guidelines around implementing the async pattern. Here is the code I came up with (I’d love your feedback on it BTW)… public class Fibonacci { private delegate void GenerateFibonacciCallback...

During my recently FrontLine trip I gave a talk on exception handling … One of the points I made is that if possible you should leverage one of the existing exception types in the BCL. I was asked a couple of times what the common exception types area...

Some great new giveaways in the developer space recently… First, we just posted the Avalon and Indigo CTP for all to download … it is no longer just for MSDN\U subscribers. Please take a look and give us your feedback! Second, JimHugg , and JoelPob just...

I had a great time yesterday at the shooting of the 50 th episode of the .NET Show … it surely was a party like atmosphere… the free beer and food helped that along ;-) I thought my segment was fun… it was great to be up there with super smart folks shaping...

One of the things that popped for me during my recent FrontLine trip is that the tools and processes we use internally are useful to folks externally as well. We are doing great stuff with VSTS around that, but I think there is even more we can do. One...

Truly paranoid programmers should read this article from Joe … Asynchronous Exceptions could be happening at any instruction in your code – is your program safe? ;-) Learn the details of the issue and why you should (or more likely) should not care about...

I just noticed that in all the excitement of the BCL team’s blog day , I missed that Kit published a list of all the members of the .NET Framework that were obsoleted in V2.0 . Notice that many of this were introduced and removed in V2.0, so the churn...

As I talked to customers (internally and externally) it is clear that our story around compatibility and side-by-side is not well understood. Here is a very brief description to help us get on the same page: Compatibility: We are working very hard to...

While I was on my recent road-trip I heard over and over again that people wanted better tools to know what is really going on in the CLR primarily for tracking down performance issues. Profilers are a great way to do that. You may be heard about the...

I am super excited about the first CTP of Avalon and Indigo that work nicely together.. And check that out – we beat the March 38 th date rudder promised at VSLive! Do we get a bonus for that ;-) This bits work on top of the latest VS 2005 CTP and include...

Just a reminder, I will be in the chat room 1 PM PST Please come and join me! Designing .NET Class Libraries: Designing for a Managed Memory World

Wow – I gotta say the BCL team knows how to have a blog day … In one day the team managed to post 23 meaty blogs on a whole range of topics… and I know that many entries got ½ done that will post out over the next week or so. No doubt great search engine...

We are in the end game for .NET Framework 2.0 and I * LOVE * this stage of the product… it is so cool because there is so much pressure to ship the right product at the right time that ideas get tested and retested in a crucible of reviews. There are...

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I was greeted this morning to an excellent interview with Donald Knuth on NPR … Did you know that his kitchen is designed using principles of graph theory? Apparently everything wants to be next to the trash can… Amazing stuff.. Maybe Knuth should do...

The .NET Journal has an interesting interview with Anders talks about nullable types, generics in java, C# Standardization, C# 3.0 built in query and set processing support, and of course my favorite bit on learning the Framework being more important...

A reader recently asked me if there is any perf difference between Convert.ToString() or Int32.ToString(). If you search for Convert.cs you will find the Rotor source for Convert.cs which helps answer the question… 02066 public static string ToString...

I have an opening for senior Program Manager on my team. I am looking for someone with deep industry experience that is equally capable and comfortable on a broad range of areas: Working with Closures and lamda function and virtual dispatch Motivating...

The BCL team has laid down the blog challenge … On next Tuesday the goal is for the whole team to do nothing but blog all day. Knowing this team, I am sure you will be impressed with what they come up with, both in volume and quality. Kit’s taking suggests...

I love this new section of the Channel9 Wiki on Classes with Performance Comments . Rico does a great job of seeding the space but it is my sincere hope that many of you will add your own perf comments or questions their as well. BTW – don’t miss your...

This quote came up in a meeting I was in recently… We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately - Benjamin Franklin As important in building a developer platform as it is in building a democracy.

Having spent 3 weeks on the road talking to different customers about software development and coming back in to look fresh at our on processes has got me thinking about our development methodologies. That coupled with the fact that my Dad , who is a...

I returned to work this week from 4 weeks on the road (one week was vacation) and man I am glad to be back in sunny Redmond ! I did this road-trip as part of a training class of sorts. The idea, as Josh says , is to get folks that are designing and building...