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PDC Panel: Looking Ahead to the Future of the CLR
I am super excited to get the opportunity to moderate the Looking Ahead to the Future of the CLR panel at the PDC.. While the panelist and I have some great ideas of what we could talk about, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Where do you want to go with Read More...
Posted 29 August 05 05:59 by BradA | 8 Comments   
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ROTOR Exceptions and XP SP2
Possibly old news, but I wanted to archive the answer here for posterity. XP SP2 made some security related changes that impacted ROTOR … in particular a customer recently reported: The issue revolves around exception handling. It would appear that XP Read More...
Posted 28 August 05 08:28 by BradA | 0 Comments   
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The things we do to make PDC great....
Monday we start our 2 nd set of dry runs for nearly all the breakout sessions content at the PDC. These dry runs not only serve as an excellence forcing function to get the talks done, but they give the MS folks here in Redmond a chance to see the PDC Read More...
Posted 27 August 05 10:37 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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What's the CLR doing at the PDC?
Check out these great channel 9 spots… My only regret is that the PDC is sold out so we will not see the spike in registration I was hoping for ;-). But maybe we will see more people is coming to these sessions at the PDC.. http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=104544 Read More...
Posted 26 August 05 08:36 by BradA | 0 Comments   
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Sample Chapter from the SLARv2 posted
DevX.com recently posted a sample chapter of .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 2 They choose System.Xml.XmlReader … some good annotations on this one. I’d love to hear your comments on this sneak peak… Read More...
Posted 25 August 05 06:01 by BradA | 3 Comments   
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Bonus One-On-One sessions at the PDC
Coming to the PDC? Looking for a way to maximize your time? I have just the idea for you. The truly unique thing about the PDC is the level of technical expertise in both the attendees and staff. We have gather some of the best staff to provide you with Read More...
Posted 24 August 05 11:09 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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My PDC interview on Channel9
The channel9 guys just posted an interview we did focusing on the PDC. Check it out … Love to hear your comments.. Anything you didn't know before? BTW, I don't think it is too late to register for the PreCon if you are already comming to the PDC, you Read More...
Posted 24 August 05 10:04 by BradA | 3 Comments   
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My DotNet Rocks! show posted
Joel and I had a great time on this show … a few highlights to get you to listen to the whole thing ;-) Lots more jewel’s in the show… A lot of talk about GC, only for you “Core Geeks…” History around the dispose pattern (on BHarry’s post on deterministic Read More...
Posted 24 August 05 06:00 by BradA | 7 Comments   
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GAC in CLR 2.0
Richard does a great series of 4 posts on the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) in CLR 2.0 ..more than you need to know for sure! The Wonders of the Whidbey GAC -- Part I: Processor Architecture The Wonders of the Whidbey GAC -- Part II: Interop with the Everett Read More...
Posted 23 August 05 09:14 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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Power Management
I talked a while back about some issues around battery life , but recently a co-worker set me a really interest set of factoids about power management I thought I’d share with you.. There are no “miracles cures” on horizon for the issue of battery life. Read More...
Posted 21 August 05 03:35 by BradA | 4 Comments   
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Crashing a DotNet Rocks show
Joel Pobar invited me to crash his chat with DotNet Rocks tomorrow (or is that later today now…) I am really looking forward to it… I download their shows all the time.. It should be really fun to be on. My understanding is that Joel and I are going to Read More...
Posted 19 August 05 12:37 by BradA | 6 Comments   
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A new VB theme song?
A co-worker just forwarded me his VB theme song… best I have heard.. Nothing like a song about a “Big Cold Beer” to make me code better in VB.. http://www.fosters.com.au/enjoy/docs/VB_song_original.mp3 Oh, btw, VB in this case is Victoria bitter .. but Read More...
Posted 16 August 05 09:09 by BradA | 2 Comments   
.NET Framework 2.0, SLARvol2 and FDG
With the SLARvol2 and FDG being published very right around the time that the .NET Framework 2.0 (“Whidbey”) is shipping people are naturally asking about how applicable these books are to .NET Framework 2.0… The short answer is very applicable. While Read More...
Posted 15 August 05 08:01 by BradA | 3 Comments   
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The Framework Design Guidelines Gets its First Review
…and it is not even published yet. We asked Bill Wagner (of Effective C# fame) to review a draft of the manuscript. His feedback was very helpful polishing the text and hopefully you will find his review (or is that preview) of the book helpful as well… Read More...
Posted 14 August 05 09:33 by BradA | 3 Comments   
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Shamless book plug: Framework Design Guidelines : Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries
If it is on Amazon it must be for real ;-) Framework Design Guidelines : Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries How should we refer to this one? We affectionately call the others SLAR1 and SLAR2 … what should this be? I am found Read More...
Posted 11 August 05 09:03 by BradA | 19 Comments   
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Environment.MachineName truncates after the first 15 characters
When in a domain, a machine’s name is limited to 15 characters, but in a workgroup a machine name can be much longer. However, as one of our internal customers noticed, Environment.MachineName truncates after the first 15 characters. This is because Environment.ComputerName Read More...
Posted 10 August 05 09:28 by BradA | 6 Comments   
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PDC2005 Birds of a Feather Sessions
Check it out, we opened up the Birds of a feather suggestion center … this is your chance to lead your own discussion at the PDC on topics YOU care about. PDC is a great forum for this because the best-and-brightest developers targeting windows will be Read More...
Posted 09 August 05 09:14 by BradA | 2 Comments   
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A couple of great CLR concurrency papers
I just ran across these and thought they are worth sharing: http://research.microsoft.com/~birrell/papers/ThreadsCSharp.pdf http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/08/Concurrency/default.aspx Enjoy! Read More...
Posted 07 August 05 08:43 by BradA | 6 Comments   
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Page Proofs for Design Guidelines book complete!
Oh, what a great day… I * just * finished doing the final page proofs for the design guidelines book that Krzysztof Cwalina and I have been working on .. it has been a long road, but this thing is almost in the bag. Doing page proofs is always hard for Read More...
Posted 05 August 05 11:25 by BradA | 2 Comments   
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CLR team having an impact down-under
Good to see the CLR team’s trip down-under is having an impact … Not just long days in the pub ;-) Read More...
Posted 05 August 05 09:00 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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A date with Rico at the PDC
Well, not like that ;-) But Rico is open for business at the PDC. .. We got him hooked up with a small office where he can meet 1-1 with anyone that is having perf issues. He can live debug your application or just talk architecture with it. Rico has Read More...
Posted 04 August 05 08:43 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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Unique opportunity on the CLR's Rotor team
We are just starting to kick off the hard core planning for the next release of ROTOR , a shared source version of the CLR. One of the first tasks here is to staff up the team! We need at least 1 PM and 2 developers that have a vision for what ROTOR should Read More...
Posted 03 August 05 11:28 by BradA | 5 Comments   
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