I had promised last week that I would post some screen shots of the Whitehorse Class Designer tool. Here is one. Notice that this diagram would be familiar to anyone used to UML notation. However, it is not a UML Class Diagram, but a visualization...

April's MSDN Update will come to you after the Mobile Developer Conference and follow the theme of this event. Dr. Neil Roodyn ( of SMS Utilities fame ) will walk you through developing a client application for devices such as the Smartphone and Pocket...

I must apologize for not posting sooner. I have been insanely busy for the last few weeks working on getting the new emulator bootstrapping scenarios working with the newly refactored code base, but I am current have a few spare minutes while I re-image...

Joel Pobar has a nice post with Jan Kotas' explanation of how exceptions work in Rotor (and by extension, the CLR).

SQL reliability requires CLR to fail gracefully in asynchronous exception case, like ThreadAbortException, meaning, CLR should not panic, and it should not leak any resource. ThreadAbortException can be raised by calling Thread.Abort() on the specific...

I'm not the first one to notice, but my teammate Jeff Sandquist has set up an XBox Live! community for the online equivalent of Scoble’s geek dinners. Seems like a neat way to play some online Links while meeting other members of the software community...

My name is Matt Warren. I am a software achitect at Microsoft on the C# programming language product team. I'm currently working on a top-secret, hush-hush project that will make all my previous top-secret hush-huhs projects seem like child's play...

David Levine asks me how to tell which load context an assembly is in. To my best knowledge, this information is not exposed in managed way. In fact, you don't even know whether an assembly has a context or not (Remember assemblies returned from Assembly...

Well. No one on the GDN team complained. Except about other things. ;-) So I put the FAQ up, plain as it is. Even in the left navigation. I'm hoping this stems the tide for the poor folks who write me day after day about things that don't work as well...

Here is a minor clarification on the enum size guidelines. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. As always, you can check out the base design guidelines and my incremental updates. Do use Int32 (the default in most programming...

Jesse Kaplan, a PM on the CLR team, recently put together this cheat sheet on Pinvokes which includes links to samples, articles, and papers on using PInvoke: http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/clr/bcl/TechArticles/TechArticles/PInvokeHelp/FAQ.aspx Check...

Following up on The PInvoke problem conversation we had the CLR interop team put together this FAQ … Looks like lots of good resources out there already. We hope this goes a long way to addressing the issues you raised.