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Monday, October 06, 2008 8:29 AM

The Compare Contract [Kim Hamilton]

A breaking change? We recently heard from a customer who observed different sorting behavior in .NET FX 3.5 SP1 compared to 3.5 RTM. The different behavior was demonstrated with the following code. The class StringWrapper provided a custom sort in which
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:00 AM

.NET Framework Client Profile [Justin Van Patten]

Last week Soma and Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta. As part of this release, we’re introducing the .NET Framework Client Profile , a smaller .NET Framework redist optimized for .NET client
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Monday, November 19, 2007 4:38 PM

.NET Framework 3.5 Now Available! [Justin Van Patten]

.NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 have officially shipped! Soma has the announcement on his blog and the downloads are available here . There's over 250 new features in .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Here's a list of new BCL features available
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 8:00 AM

Change in System.ServiceProcess shutdown is coming in 3.5 RTM [Inbar Gazit]

In all current versions of the Framework we do not close the actual service when we get a shutdown request from the OS. Instead we just call OnShutdown and hope that the user has overridden this method and called Stop() themselves. We found out that many
Posted by BCLTeam | 8 Comments
Monday, August 06, 2007 1:56 PM

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 is Now Available [Inbar Gazit]

In case you have not heard, we recently released the latest pre-release version of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (previously code named “Orcas”). You are encouraged to download and try it, available here: .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 There are no new
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 7:00 AM

A Brief History of DateTime Follow-up [Anthony Moore]

Thanks all for the feedback on A Brief History of DateTime . Thanks Justin for responding to most of this. I can elaborate on some of the issues raised: >> (3) Was there any consideration given in the design process around making DateTimeOffset
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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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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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Friday, April 20, 2007 2:21 PM

Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Beta 1 Has Been Released! [Inbar Gazit]

I'm pleased to let you all know that Microsoft released the first beta version of the next version of Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team System and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. This of course also includes the next version of the .NET Framework
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:43 AM

Visual Basic "Live From Redmond" Webcast Series [Justin Van Patten]

The Visual Basic team has put together a "Live from Redmond" webcast series aimed at the next version of Visual Basic and Visual Studio code named "Orcas". The live series starts April 18th and will continue to the end of May. It looks like the focus
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Friday, March 09, 2007 5:25 PM

A new TraceListener in Orcas: EventSchemaTraceListener [Inbar Gazit]

TraceListener is an abstract class representing a listener object that is used to log event that a TraceSource is producing. In .NET 2.0 we have a few existing implementations such as ConsoleTraceListener for logging events to the standard console and
Posted by BCLTeam | 7 Comments
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:44 PM

Introducing: System.Numeric.BigInteger [Inbar Gazit]

Update : BigInteger was cut from the .NET 3.5 release . Have you ever needed a really huge number? So big it just couldn't fit into any other base-type in the framework? Well, no problem anymore, just use the new BigInteger type. You can now have the
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Friday, January 12, 2007 6:43 PM

Orcas January CTP Now Available [Justin Van Patten]

The Orcas January Community Technology Preview (CTP) has been publicly released as of Wednesday evening! This CTP is available as a Virtual PC image or as a self-extracting install . We advise against installing the self-extracting install on a production
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