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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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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:00 AM

.NET Framework Developer Documentation Survey [Matthew Connelly]

Help us improve the developer documentation by taking the Visual Studio and .NET Framework Developer Documentation Survey . This survey will give us a better understanding of the type of applications you are developing, how you use help, and how we can
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 8:00 AM

Long Paths in .NET, Part 3 of 3 [Kim Hamilton]

Updated 6/10/08 2:20pm: clarified details of proposed solution Here it is, Part 3 of the long path series , which started over a year ago. I apologize for leaving you hanging; the BCL team has been busy lighting up the web . Because of the delay, I’ll
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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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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:50 AM

Working with Signed Non-Decimal and Bitwise Values [Ron Petrusha]

Recently, a number of questions have surfaced about the accuracy of the .NET Framework when working with the binary representation of numbers. (For example, see https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=295117 .)
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Friday, January 04, 2008 8:00 AM

Where did BigInteger go? [Melitta Andersen]

This has been the subject of several recent feedback e-mails we’ve received. Moreover, a few recent correspondents were kind enough to point out that not only did we remove it, but we didn’t say anything about it. I apologize for that. We weren’t trying
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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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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
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 8:00 AM

Dispose Pattern and Object Lifetime [Brian Grunkemeyer]

The Dispose pattern is the way to think of object lifetime in the .NET Framework. Admittedly, it can be a little subtle. A customer asked a question on our MSDN documentation for implementing the Dispose pattern . I’ll get to this question, but let’s
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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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Friday, August 24, 2007 3:53 PM

BCL Refresher: List<T> Predicates [Inbar Gazit]

This time I’m going to focus on one class in this blog post. System.Collections.Generic.List<T> contains some special methods that exist on this type. Those methods take a System.Predicate which is essentially a delegate that allows us to filter
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Monday, August 13, 2007 8:00 AM

Greetings from the New Girl [Melitta Andersen]

My name is Melitta Andersen, and I started at Microsoft last Monday as a PM in the BCL. I was an intern here last year, and then went back to Carnegie Mellon to finish my CS degree. Since my return to the BCL, I’ve discovered that this blog is a useful
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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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