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.NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster Updated
A while back I blogged about the .NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster... We made a few tweaks and updated it, including making it available in more formats. Download Links: Full XPS Split XPS PDF Tiled PDF Enjoy! Read More...
NBC Direct: A new Companion App
I have been convinced for a while now that the industry is headed toward more of a companion application model... that is a model that offers the best of the web world in the browser and everywhere and the best of the client world out of browser. One Read More...
Posted 12 November 07 11:12 by BradA | 9 Comments   
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.NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster
Many of you have asked for an update to the .NET Framework namespace poster for 3.5... Thanks to Paul Andrew , Kit George and many others, we now have it! See Paul's blog for more details... Download the full PDF to a color printer near you ;-) Read More...
Poll: Allowing .NET EXEs to run off a network share
By default .NET applications (EXEs) that are launched from a remote file system (eg \\server\bin\SomeApp.exe ), will not be considered trusted and typically will fail (unless specifically designed to run with low trust). This is in direct contrast with Read More...
Posted 26 October 07 10:05 by BradA | 150 Comments   
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What is your Allocation Number?
Rico is doing some very interesting work to get some sort of idea about the allocation overhead of using different parts of the .NET Framework. As he says, this is a fairly rough approximation done just with static analysis, but it does give you something Read More...
A new Opportunity for me...
As many of you know after you ship a major release there is inevitably a re-org as the teams get in alignment to deliver on the next set of opportunities… One of the outcomes of our post- Whidbey shuffle here at Microsoft was to create a product unit Read More...
Where to find ISV-style C# experience
I had an opportunity recently to chat briefly to Eric Hahn (of Netscape and Lookout fame) about his next interesting project… which btw, will be built in C# just like lookout. He mentioned that it was hard to find developers with world class ISV-style Read More...
Some thoughts on concurrency
Joe recently published some thoughts on concurrency in the CLR… this is still early thinking kind of stuff, but it does give you an idea of where our current thinking is. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/01/EndBracket/ Love to hear your thoughts\comments Read More...
Posted 14 December 05 09:04 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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Breaking Changes between .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0
I just saw some mail internally where folks were looking for a list of the breaking changes between .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0… As you likely know we work * very * hard to ensure that your V1.1 apps will this just work on 2.0, but none-the-less, this Read More...
Posted 14 November 05 10:31 by BradA | 2 Comments   
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PowerCollections for V2.0 RTM
Peter just posted a version of the Power Collections for V2.0 . I’d love to hear your feedback on these and the general model. Our goal with helping out Peter and Wintellect with power collections was to provide a first class extension of the existing Read More...
Posted 13 November 05 09:51 by BradA | 17 Comments   
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VS2003: Copying a file to the output directory
I recently needed to create a VS 2003 project. The application is a simple console app that reads an xml file as input from the current directory. This is super simple to do on the command line but more obtuse from within VS. Chris Sells offers some great Read More...
Posted 12 June 05 11:44 by BradA | 5 Comments   
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Have you installed VS Express Edition?
One of the very cool things about the VS 2005 Express Edition for us inside the big house is that users have the option to anonymously upload data about their install experience automatically…. The goal is the use this data to help the install experience Read More...
Posted 02 June 05 02:34 by BradA | 14 Comments   
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Take the .NET Framework 2.0 Compatibility Challenge
Lots of buzz around the issue of .NET Framework 2.0 running your current applications… I could wax on about why this kind of compatibility is important, what we have been doing to make sure your apps keep working, how side-by-side really helps here, why Read More...
Posted 26 May 05 09:36 by BradA | 8 Comments   
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Deploying the .NET Framework
Someone asked me this week for some best practices around deploying the .NET Framework on client machines. Unfortunately I don’t have a ton of experience with this. For the last big application I work on ( Terrarium ) we decided to simply pre-req’ed Read More...
Posted 07 February 04 04:46 by BradA | 10 Comments   
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internal = public?
There was an interesting thread this week inside the firewall about compatibility concerns the .NET Framework (and by extension WinFX) has in light of the fact that you can you use reflection to find and even invoke private members. Here is the exact Read More...
Posted 07 February 04 04:38 by BradA | 56 Comments   
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