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June 2007 - Posts

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 8:00 AM

Non-Generic Collections to be Removed from Silverlight [Inbar Gazit]

Those of you who are already using Silverlight 1.1 Alpha may have seen that the familiar non-generic collections were all marked as obsolete. This includes almost everything under the System.Collections namespace. You shouldn’t be too surprised. We’ve
Posted by BCLTeam | 21 Comments
Monday, June 25, 2007 3:51 PM

BCL Refresher: Converting the Non-Generic Collections [Inbar Gazit]

As you know generics were only introduced to the .NET Framework in version 2.0. Originally we had a lot of collections in the System.Collections namespace that can store objects. In version 2.0 we added the System.Collections.Generic namespace to support
Posted by BCLTeam | 13 Comments
Monday, June 18, 2007 8:00 AM

A Brief History of DateTime [Anthony Moore]

For the .NET 3.5 release, the BCL team has been trying to solve some problems related to dates, times and time zones that customers having been asking us to address for some time. We’ve invested in two significant features: TimeZoneInfo : Extended Time
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:48 PM

DateTimeOffset: A New DateTime Structure in .NET 3.5 [Justin Van Patten]

One thing we haven't publicized much on this blog yet is a new date time structure we've added in .NET 3.5 called DateTimeOffset (currently available as part of .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 1 ). Kathy mentioned it on her blog a while back and Daniel
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:31 AM

BCL Refresher: DateTime.ToUniversalTime returns MaxValue/MinValue on overflow [Josh Free]

DateTime. ToUniversalTime converts the value of the current DateTime object to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When the converted value is either too large or too small to fit into a DateTime object then MaxValue or MinValue is returned, respectively.
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Monday, June 11, 2007 1:13 PM

System.TimeZoneInfo: Working with Ambiguous and Invalid Points in Time [Josh Free]

System.TimeZoneInfo (currently available as part of .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 1 ) contains methods for checking if a DateTime instance represents an ambiguous or invalid time in a specific time zone. These methods are particularly useful for validating
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:40 PM

Exploring Windows Time Zones with System.TimeZoneInfo [Josh Free]

The main feature of the System.TimeZoneInfo class (previously named System.TimeZone2 in CTPs prior to .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 1 ) is to enable .NET developers to seamlessly work with Windows time zones in their applications. This includes enabling .NET
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