Steven Pratschner's .Net CF WebLog

This is the second in a series of posts describing the design of the .Net Compact Framework CLR. If you missed Part 1, you can find it here . This installment describes the basic design tenants of the .Net Compact Framework JIT compilers. ---- The...

In the last few weeks I've been working on a series of posts that describes why various design decisions were made when building the .Net Compact Framework CLR. In this first post, I describe the environmental factors that have influenced the design and...

Much has been written about the new technical features available in version 2 of the .Net Compact Framework. In this post, I've tried to take a "higher level" approach by describing the product in terms of the benefits it can bring to a organization....

In a previous post I described how the Loader Log can be used to help diagnose problems such as assembly load failures, version mismatches and so on ( http://blogs.msdn.com/stevenpr/archive/2005/02/28/381744.aspx ). Another critical element of our new...

Last summer I wrote a post about how to access the PocketOutlook Object Model (POOM) using the Beta1 build of the .Net Compact Framework ( http://blogs.msdn.com/stevenpr/archive/2004/08/05/209390.aspx ). A few things have changed since then that make...

If you’ve spent much time developing applications with version 1 of the .Net Compact Framework, you’ve likely been frustrated at times by the lack of tools to help you diagnose problems in your applications. Even common errors, like the failure to find...

Last summer I posted an article that described the basic differences between the .Net Compact Framework and the full .Net Framework with respect to versioning and deployment (see http://blogs.msdn.com/stevenpr/archive/2004/06/30/170289.aspx ). Recently...

Throughout the Whidbey product cycle, we’ve tried hard to make sure that the new version of the Compact Framework we’re building is capable of running the applications you’ve built with version 1.0 unchanged. That is, our goal is to make sure you can...

Note: Be sure to also read the update to this post . Working with POOM in the Compact Framework is even easier now that version 2 has shipped. ----- One of the areas that I work on in the .Net Compact Framework group is native code interoperability...

Developers frequently ask for more information about how the garbage collector works in the Compact Framework.   In this blog entry, I’ll address the questions we are most often asked about the collector.   I’ll start by describing...

Hi everyone – My name is Steven Pratschner. I’m the Program Manager for the CLR that ships as part of the .Net Compact Framework. I intend to use this blog to post information on various topics related to the Compact Framework, including versioning...