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Why we've posted a beta refresh of System Center Capacity Planner

Posted Sunday, October 30, 2005 9:36 AM by jonathanh
A week ago we updated the public beta of System Center Capacity Planner. This “beta refresh” of SCCP is now dependent on the release candidate of .NET Framework 2.0, instead of being dependent on their beta 2 release. Shipping this refresh took a lot Read More...
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A community-based marketing experiment - Microsoft gets on board the Cluetrain!

Posted Monday, August 08, 2005 8:18 AM by jonathanh
The Visual Studio 2005 evangelists have created a new community marketing experiment: High Five Wikisheets . Microsoft marketing has taken some flak in the past (ahem), but this wiki seems to be pure Cluetrain Manifesto material. Risky, radical, and all Read More...
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A good week for new .NET programming languages

Posted Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:48 PM by jonathanh
IronPython is a .NET implementation of Python, written by Jim Hugunin . It’s now reached v0.7.6, and has been released on microsoft.com (via Mike Gunderloy ). What’s really impressive is that IronPython is faster than Python 2.3 . F# is a .NET implementation Read More...
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Optimizing managed C# vs. native C++ code

Posted Friday, May 20, 2005 7:40 PM by jonathanh
Raymond Chen (aka "fixed more Windows bugs than you've had hot dinners") and Rico Mariani (aka "Mr .NET Performance") have been running a great series of articles where they write and then optimize the same application in two different languages: native Read More...
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For all you .NET language developers - Don Syme has started an F# blog

Posted Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:00 AM by jonathanh
Back when I worked at Microsoft Research in England, Don Syme already had his hands deep in the guts of .NET – he co-authored the original paper on generics for C# , and fought long and hard to get them accepted into v2.0 of the language. That’s no mean Read More...
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FlexWiki released to the world!

Posted Monday, September 27, 2004 10:13 PM by jonathanh
If you're looking for a great Wiki implementation for ASP.NET, with a good user base and a whole lot of neat features to build on, look no more. David Ornstein has jumped through all the legal hoops, dotted all the i's, crossed all the t's, and has finally Read More...
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Debugging SP2 on the Tablet PC - managed code, tabtip.exe, and procexp

Posted Sunday, August 29, 2004 11:26 PM by jonathanh
If you've got a Tablet PC and you're running SP2 (and you should be!) you might have noticed a couple of processes hanging around called TabTip.exe and TCServer.exe. And right after noticing them, you probably wondered why they seemed to be taking up Read More...
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Welcome to Jim Hugunin!

Posted Saturday, August 14, 2004 1:01 AM by jonathanh
Jim Hugunin of IronPython fame (and new Microsoft employee) now has a home on blogs.msdn.com. Check out his first post on Dynamic Languages and the Common Language Runtime . Welcome to the community, Jim! Read More...
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Preview release of Wintellect's PowerCollections for .NET

Posted Thursday, August 05, 2004 10:48 AM by jonathanh
Good news in my inbox from the folks at Wintellect: This month, Wintellect announces the availability of a preview release of its new open source collection class library for .NET 2.0 called Power Collections .NET. ... Wintellect and Microsoft are co-sponsoring Read More...
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IronPython for .NET released - and it's faster than Python-2.3

Posted Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:05 AM by jonathanh
Some very cool news from Jim Hugunin about IronPython, his port of Python to .NET: He's released it under the CPL It's up to 1.7x faster than Python-2.3 on the pystone benchmark He's joining the Microsoft CLR team to push for more support for dynamic Read More...
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