Hi all, I've decided - with lots of thought and deliberation - to take a "tinkering" break (sabbatical?) over the next little while: grok some cool new software areas and hang out with the family. I'll hopefully be taking a look at stuff like machine...

Joe Duffy and I recently did an MSDN TV stint on Method Dispatch Internals . Joe concentrated on the static end of the spectrum, while I talked about late-bound binding and dynamic calling convention. I also appeared with fellow Australian Microsofties...

Joe Duffy and I were really impressed with the amount of people who showed up for the PDC session “Write a Dynamic Language compiler in an hour” at the PDC last month. It confirmed my belief that customers care for details about compiler technologies...

There seems to be a fair amount of recent press and blog action surrounding the dynamic or “scripting” language movement, especially when the context includes virtual machines. While I wont bother commenting on why this is the case, I figured I would...

It’s been a while since I’ve posted - we’ve been busy getting Beta 2 ready, and that means fixing bugs, bugs, and more bugs. I have a bunch of nearly complete posts, mostly around Reflection and type system identity, which I’ll be kicking out soon I hope...

Firstly, the big metadata diagram . Thanks to Chris King for this absolute gem. Now, on to the various ways developers can read and write metadata bits... Unmanaged Metadata Reader API’s I mentioned various times before that there exists Unmanaged Metadata...

2 months since my last post? – Yeah I know, I’ve been very busy lately with Whidbey CLR commitments. I'll have two posts today – a quick postmortem on TechEd AU/NZ, and a post on various metadata related API’s developers are able to consume. They're kind...

Over the past couple of months, I've written up a bunch of notes surrounding the CLR type system. You'll notice that it's littered with “This is how Reflection deals with these types“, as it's ment to be the start of a document that illustrates...

Looks like I'll be taking the long flight down to Auckland, NZ and Canberra Australia to speak at TechEd 2004 under the developer tools banner. This week, I'll start the speaking preperations - I suspect it will take me around three weeks to perfect the...

Figured I'd take the opportunity to capitalize on the increased link traffic Brad sent my way, by giving a quick and dirty overview of “What’s new in Reflection”. Illustrated are features I believe are worth their weight in gold - it...

Jan Kotas, a developer on the CLR team, and an original member of the Rotor team has recently started a servicing project for the V1 source. This fixes a few known issues, and for the interest of google indexing, fixes one issue in particular that many...

A month and a half since my last post - I've been slacking off. I do have a good excuse though, visited a couple of countries (more on that), and as a result have been digging myself out of e-mail hell. I'm cooking up the final episode in the series of...

I figured I’d go exploring through the Rotor debugger today – we had a bug come in for Type.InvokeMember() where we throw a System.IndexOutOfRangeException unexpectedly. If you’re trying to invoke a method on a class which has an overload...

Just thought I'd post a small screenshot of Rotor Whidbey running on a Longhorn build - we speculated if it'd even build, but as it turns out, coupled with the latest Whidbey C++ compiler it built and ran fine. As a side tidbit, we've got daily tarballs...

There are various other scenario’s in the invocation space that have not been dissected. I mentioned a few of them in the comments section of one of my other posts . To be a little more illustrative, this posting will iterate over some of these...

I'm posting up a “getting started“ style document that previous members of the Rotor team cooked up, it illustrates some notes for debugging under the GDB environment (FreeBSD and MacOS). Enjoy. Launching GDB Debugging a new instance...

Just thought I'd quickly shout-out to Justin Rogers and Darren Neimke . Had lunch with these guys today and had a fun time. Justin is doing some stuff over in .NET Terrarium land along with other things, and Darren is a fellow Aussie, over here for the...

After my post about the CLR team job openings, I've had a bunch of mixed responses. Some good, some very bad. A friend of mine recently pointed me at this little wonder: http://weblogs.asp.net/jobsblog/ . If I had this kind of information back when I...

We should all welcome , and subscribe to Chris King's blog, over at: http://blogs.msdn.com/kingces . Chris King is the System.Reflection dev - he works in the metadata weeds all day. He's promised all sorts of wonderful Reflection and Reflection Generics...

I've been cooking up some notes on the ways one may do late-bound or dynamic invocation. It's unpolished, but hopefully you can dig yourself out of the weeds to get something out of it. Don't expect it to be complete, but if there's enough interest, I...

I've finally gotten around to cooking up a post about the the spectrum of late-bound invocations one may make over methods, and it includes a look at a new Whidbey feature called LCG (Lightweight Code Gen). I'll be posting the invocation story very soon...

A question came through on e-mail today, asking where one could “talk“ to the Rotor community. I figured I'd blog a representative list - if you have something to add, feel free to leave a comment. Mailing lists: DOTNET-ROTOR, hosted...

I just posted to the Rotor newsgroup, the current job advertisements for the CLR team. Because this is a Rotor/CLR blog, I figured this post might hit the right prospective audience. Experience in the Rotor source base is a definite advantage. How can...

I've seen a few questions floating around about the exception handling mechanism used in Rotor (and the CLR). Here's another list of notes about exception handling in Rotor. It was written by Jan Kotas back in the day to help Rotor developers debug and...

I'm posting a document written by Patrick Dussud (who's an architect on the CLR team) about Rotor's GC. The first release of Rotor had a simplified GC that was polled by the FJIT (usually done at the point of a call), which is massively different to the...