Couple of Historical Facts

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Jason Zander — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:40:14 GMT

One more factoid: the MSCORxxx.DLL naming convention shows off my IBM background. For the AS/400 we used a naming convention of [Sub][Component][Feature]. I (literally) created the original set of engine DLLs in the build system and copied that format. So MSCOR is the Microsoft COR and the last 3 letters is the feature (Execution Engine, Just-in Time Compiler, Library, etc).

Thankfully someone else created the class library name spaces and weren't stuck in 8.3 mode like me :)

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Norman Diamond — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:13:22 GMT

"And then I started to realize how much is taken down incorrectly."

Just like any other kind of journalism.

Or MSDN.

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Andrei Rinea — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:24:53 GMT

so that's why the core DLL is called MSCORLIB.DLL

I thought that COR was a shortened "CORE" but it isn't.

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Shawn Burke - MSFT — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:14:13 GMT

Ah yes. By the time we switched over to running on you guys it was probably 1998 or 1999 and it was just bieng called "ComPlus" by then - and we went straight from J# to Cool (C#) and I think we (WinForms) were the first team to do so, thanks to Chris Anderson on a weekend mission to singlehandedly convert the whole tree. I remember intracting with SMC but can't remember if we had any in our tree.

I remember the rough early integarations into the VS tree, the star chambers, debugging introp issues from the CLR side (no managed debugger). Good times - not a shipped piece of software in the whole stack. PDC2000 was a blast.

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