Dino's Blog

Last time we successfully created a task and started it running. That’s an accomplishment, but there are a couple of details we should get out of the way before we start to dive deeper into the fiber mode implementation. Those are all on IHostTask and...

Last time we left off with the CLR calling into the host to create a task. So far everything’s been very simple. For each interface we’ve only needed to implement a couple of methods to get the bulk of the work done. While I’ve certainly left out a couple...

When I last left off we went over the host control. The host control hands off our task and synchronization managers. Now it’s time to take a look at the two host-implemented managers, starting with the task manager. I’m going to skip over the minor details...

In the last blog entry I went over how we start the runtime. Once it was loaded we were running managed code, but I glossed over the managers that were present and participating in running the system. Today we start off with CHostControl::GetHostManager...

Well it’s been a while since I’ve blogged… There’ve been a few distractions, starting with Beta 1, then vacation, and now things are back to normal. So it seems reasonable to blog about something that we’ve just shipped in Whidbey Beta 1: The cooperative...