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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:58 PM

What's New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 2 [Justin Van Patten]

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 are now available to download . .NET 4 Beta 2 contains several new BCL features and enhancements in addition to what was included in .NET 4 Beta 1 . Many of these improvements were added in large part due
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:55 AM

Free LiveMeeting with the CLR Team on CLR 4 [Justin Van Patten]

Join the CLR team for a free interactive LiveMeeting session / conference call on What's New in CLR 4 on Friday, July 17, 2009. We'll specifically be covering Garbage Collection, NGEN, and Performance. Here are the details: Date: Friday, July 17 Time:
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Monday, June 08, 2009 8:00 AM

What's New in Globalization in .NET 4 Beta 1 [Melitta Andersen]

In Justin’s recent post outlining What’s New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 1 , there were only a few lines about the globalization updates. That’s because Mohamed Elgazzar was working on a more extensive document which provides details about the extent of
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Friday, May 22, 2009 6:31 PM

What's New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 1 [Justin Van Patten]

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 are available for download . .NET 4 Beta 1 contains new functionality and improvements throughout the framework. In this post I’ll discuss the changes specific to the BCL. Many of the features listed below
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:14 PM

CLR Team Blog Now Live [Justin Van Patten]

If you like this blog, you’ll want to check out and subscribe to the new CLR Team Blog that just launched last week. The new blog will serve as one consolidated site to find information on all aspects of the CLR, brought to you by CLR team members. It
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:25 PM

What's New in the BCL in .NET 4.0 CTP [Justin Van Patten]

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP is available for download as of last week. The CTP contains new functionality throughout the .NET Framework, including several new BCL features and improvements: Code Contracts System.Diagnostics.Contracts
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Friday, October 24, 2008 8:51 PM

BCL Team at PDC 2008 [Justin Van Patten]

Melitta, Kim , and I will be at PDC next week, along with several other members of the CLR team. We’ll mostly be hanging out in the lounges chatting with folks and answering questions. We’ll also be at the Ask-the-Experts night on Wednesday, so if you’ll
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Monday, June 23, 2008 5:11 PM

P/Invoke Interop Assistant [Justin Van Patten]

The Interop team recently released a new tool called the P/Invoke Interop Assistant . This tool automatically generates managed p/invoke declarations (in C# or VB) from native signatures. It includes a quick look-up for the common Win32 libraries and
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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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Friday, November 30, 2007 11:39 AM

Parallel Extensions CTP and the Parallel Computing Developer Center [Judd Hall]

The CLR Team has been working with the Parallel Computing Platform Team for the past year on some innovative ideas in parallel computing. Yesterday, the Parallel Computing Platform Team announced the Parallel Computing Developer Center along with their
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 11:38 AM

December 2007 Cumulative Time Zone Update is Now Available [Josh Free]

In case you have not heard, the December 2007 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems is now available. The update can be downloaded right now from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942763 ; the software update will also be available
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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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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 1:14 PM

.NET sources to be available with Visual Studio 2008 [Inbar Gazit]

Have you ever wanted to look inside some of the BCL methods? Have you ever wondered about some exception thrown by our code? Are you curious to see what comments BCL developers write in their code? Well, soon you’ll be able to do all of these things.
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Monday, April 30, 2007 9:45 AM

Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha [Justin Van Patten]

Today at MIX07 we announced the availability of Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight is supported
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Thursday, November 02, 2006 5:43 PM

Orcas October CTP Now Available [Justin Van Patten]

The Orcas October CTP became available for download earlier this week. This CTP contains a couple new features from the BCL team: A new high performance set collection. HashSet is a new generic collection that has been added to the System.Collections.Generic
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