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CLR Walkabout with Scoble on Channel 9
I recently took the Channel 9 folks on a Walkabout during the beta 2 zero bug bounce push period. We visited with various folks in the middle of Beta 2 lock down. There are 3 segments to the tour, and two more in my office comming up. Enjoy... Read More...
Posted 18 November 04 08:04 by Anonymous | 1 Comments   
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Whidbey Beta 1 Code Coverage Build
Compatibility is something we work very hard on. It is our goal to make sure all of your V1.x applications keep running on Whidbey (v2.0). But to accomplish that, we could really use your help. With Beta 1, we released a code coverage build which can Read More...
Posted 25 October 04 12:24 by Anonymous | 2 Comments   
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Rules for warnings and my biased view of the ObsoleteAttribute
Brad has a hot post going about how we should handle the ObsoleteAttribute and its usage in the Framework . Brad’s post is balanced and objective to not force people into one camp or another. Let me be totally biased, put my Development Manager hat back Read More...
Posted 09 October 04 10:24 by Anonymous | 10 Comments   
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Longhorn / WinFX news
I've been very busy with some, uh, scheduling issues this month. As you can imagine there is a lot that goes into making a big decision like this. I'm personally very excited about (a) reach for developers, and (b) getting the bits into the hands of customers Read More...
Posted 30 August 04 09:58 by Anonymous | 4 Comments   
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Why isn't there an Assembly.Unload method?
We frequently get asked why you cannot unload an assembly from an app domain. After all, you can do a FreeLibrary() in unmanaged code to unload a DLL, and the CLR is just using DLL's right? Reasons to Want to Unload There are generally two reasons that Read More...
Posted 31 May 04 04:19 by Anonymous | 61 Comments   
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Python for the CLR: Jim Hugunin's IronPython paper at PyCON
Jim Hugunin just gave a great paper on writing his IronPython implementation on top of the CLR at PyCON . In particular Jim says (referring to previous comments by folks indicating the CLR does not handle dynamic languages well): "I wanted to pinpoint Read More...
Posted 30 March 04 07:31 by Anonymous | 23 Comments   
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Comments on "Please Sir May I Have a Linker?"
Several folks forwarded to me Joel Spolsky's post Please Sir May I Have a Linker in which he outlines the issues with the .NET Framework redist distribution problems and calls for a simpler solution: a linker that could take your managed application and Read More...
Posted 31 January 04 02:51 by Anonymous | 48 Comments   
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NGen Overview
Performance improvements are possible with the NGen tool, but there are gotchas too... Read More...
Posted 24 September 03 05:41 by Anonymous | 18 Comments   
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