frankred's WebLog

Power Collections for .NET is a community project led by Wintellect to develop the best public license collection classes for .NET and is based on .NET Framework 2.0 generics. Browse the Power Collections for .NET documentation or download the latest...

The highlight of WinDev day 1 was the Ask The Experts (ATE) session, where attendees and speakers were able to mingle over appetizers and drinks. The food was good (especially those yummy bacon wraps J ), the drinks were flowing (I swear, I rarely touch...

As you may have heard , I've recently taken over content strategy duties for the C# dev center from Duncan Mackenzie, who has transitioned to a dev position within MSDN - best of luck D! As you also may have heard , I'll be attending the Win-Dev conference...

Get t he latest technology and application samples that demonstrate functionality found in the .NET Framework SDK version 2.0 Beta 1. The ReadMe includes a complete list of the technology and application samples available. Enjoy!

Check out the new managed debugger sample on the .NET Framework developer center. The sample demonstrates how to use the CLR debugging interfaces and also shows how to use the CLR MetaData, Symbol Store, and Process Publishing interfaces. It also demonstrates...

Dino Viehland, a developer on the CLR team, has a great blog post that illustrates how to host the CLR using the new .NET Framework 2.0 CLR hosting interfaces . Check it out!

Check out the MSDN .NET Framework Developer Center ’s new 64-bit .NET Framework programming section ! The new 64-bit .NET Framework programming section includes: development articles, tools and community resources as well as 2 step-by-step Hands-On Lab...

Designing .NET Class Libraries 101 Today, we finally launched the Designing .NET Class Libraries training course! This 14-part series of multimedia presentations and technical chats is based on an internal two-day technical education course presented...

Be sure to join us today (February 9, 2005) at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time for the Designing .NET Class Libraries: Member Types chat . Today’s chat is the follow-up chat for the Member Types presentation that was published on the .NET Framework Developer Center...

Please join us today (February 16, 2005) at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time for the Designing .NET Class Libraries: Designing Inheritance Hierarchies chat . Today’s chat is the follow-up chat for the Designing Inheritance Hierarchies presentation that was published...

Please join us today (February 23, 2005) at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time for the Designing .NET Class Libraries: API Usability chat . Today’s chat is the follow-up chat for the API Usability presentation that was published on the .NET Framework Developer Center...

Scott Wiltamuth, Product Unit Manager (PUM) for C# and one of the original C# language designers has started blogging ! Here's a brief bio on Scott in his own words...

Check out Mike Stall`s GUI Extension sample for the Managed Code Debugger (MDbg) . The sample demonstrates new capabilities, including: Modeless dialogs for the standard debugger windows: Callstack, Threadlist, module list, locals, quick watch A glyph...

Scott Wiltamuth, Product Unit Manager (PUM) for C# and one of the original C# language designers has started blogging ! Here's a brief bio on Scott in his own words...

I’ve been working with the 64-bit CLR team and several other folks at Microsoft to add a new 64-bit .NET Framework section to the .NET Framework Developer Center . The new 64-bit .NET Framework section will include overview material, hands on labs, and...

I’ve been working with Teresa over at Boston University to help coordinate Microsoft’s involvement in this year’s Win-Dev conference . I’ve always enjoyed Win-Dev as a both a speaker and an attendee b/c of the breadth and depth of the technical content...

Please join us today, Wednesday (March 16, 2005) at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time for the Designing for a Managed Memory World chat . Today's chat is the follow-up chat to the Designing for a Managed Memory World presentation that was posted on the .NET Framework...

Please join us today, Wednesday (March 2, 2005) at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time for the Designing Progressive APIs chat . Today's chat is the follow-up chat to the Designing Progressive APIs presentation that was posted on the .NET Framework developer center...

Listen to Jeffrey Richter, co-founder of Wintellect (www.Wintellect.com) and author of several best selling .NET and Win32 programming books including "Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming" (Microsoft Press) on .NET Rocks as he talks about the...

The BCL Team has certainly been busy! Check out over 35 new blog posts from the BCL Team covering everything from cross version (v1.1 to v2.0) serialization to .NET Framework 2.0 (Whidbey) Beta 2 Obsolete APIs...

Be sure to join us today (February 2, 2005) at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time for the Designing .NET Class Libraries: Rich Type System chat . Today’s chat is the follow-up chat for the Rich Type System presentation that was published on the .NET Framework Developer...

Be sure to join us today ( January 26, 2005) at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time for the Designing .NET Class Libraries: Naming Conventions chat . Today’s chat is the follow-up chat for the Naming Conventions presentation that was published on the .NET Framework...

Please join us today, Wednesday (March 9, 2005) at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time for the CLR Performance Tips chat . Today's chat is the follow-up chat to the CLR Performance Tips presentation that was posted on the .NET Framework developer center on Friday...

Brad Abrams, Lead Program Manager for the CLR Team, provides a great technical answer to this frequently asked question. What is Managed Code? Managed code is code that has its execution managed by the .NET Framework Common Language Runtime....

Please join us today, Wednesday (March 23, 2005) at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time for the Understanding Interoperability chat . Today's chat is the follow-up chat to the Understanding Interoperability presentation that was posted on the .NET Framework developer...