Jason Zander posted sample code to enumerate all the CLRs (both regulars like 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and Silverlight 1.1 CLR) in a process. The basic idea is that it sniffs for the presence of the unmanaged dll that implements the runtime (mscorwks.dll, coreclr...

I mentioned in the recent dev lab that you can debug at the IL level . I demoed two ways to do this, and here I wanted to compare them more thoroughly. The big thing that's missing is that while you can do IL level stepping, you can't view the IL evaluation...

The CLR team recently had a compiler dev Lab on campus in building 20, with a strong focus on dynamic languages. I gave a talk on the 3rd day about the debugging services in the .NET platform. It was mainly a buffet-style sampling of what the .NET...

Here's my first Silverlight 1.1 (which has .NET support) app. It bounces various shapes around the canvas. (Stop laughing! ) I didn't know how to host a SL 1.1 control on this blog server, so I hosted it at my own server here . Here's a screenshot...

I noticed a funny thing when using my blog's search feature. I was trying to find my previous blog post " You can't debug yourself ", which I explain that a managed debugger can't attach to itself. If I used the search box on my blog's webpage ( http...

Process Shutdown is evil , as Raymond Chen recently blogged about in wonderful detail. This prompts me to comment about managed debugging and debuggee shutdown. Here are some main problems that around debugging + exit-process. 1. You aren't guaranteed...

I've been pretty quiet lately. Given all the news from Mix about Silverlight , you all have enough to be playing with without more random chatter from me. Being a CLR developer with no artistic skills whatsoever, I'm a little biased regarding what I'm...