SpankyJ
Adventures in the guts of Oslo... M, Mg and other language fun...
MrEpl a fun way to learn MSchema
One of the hidden gems (in my mind, but then I’m biased) in the Microsoft “Oslo” SDK that went...
Author: joshwil Date: 11/13/2008
Using MGrammar to create .Net instances through Xaml
In the last couple months I have had more fun playing with MGrammar than just about any other...
Author: joshwil Date: 11/13/2008
Patrick is blogging, make sure to check it out!
https://blogs.msdn.com/patrick_dussud/default.aspx Patrick is super-smart... Hopefullly his blog will...
Author: joshwil Date: 11/22/2006
PerfConsole is my kind of 20% time...
Other companies have much talked about 20% time... That sounds great to me! Here at Microsoft (at...
Author: joshwil Date: 08/10/2006
PerfConsole is unleashed...
So, Rico beat me to the punch: https://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2006/08/03/688019.aspx As we have...
Author: joshwil Date: 08/04/2006
Performance Analysis
I have spent the last couple years investigating the performance of various parts of the CLR and...
Author: joshwil Date: 08/03/2006
Visual Studio Team System 180 day trial...
I just found out that VSTS has a free 180-day trial edition....
Author: joshwil Date: 08/01/2006
Should I choose to take advantage of 64-bit?
Here's the guts of a response that I posted a while back to an internal mailing list re: tradeoffs...
Author: joshwil Date: 07/18/2006
Blog about writing profiler stubs to interact with the 2.0 runtime.
Check out this blog entry (https://blogs.msdn.com/jkeljo/archive/2005/08/11/450506.aspx) to see some...
Author: joshwil Date: 08/11/2005
BigArray, getting around the 2GB array size limit
I’ve received a number of queries as to why the 64-bit version of the 2.0 .Net runtime still has...
Author: joshwil Date: 08/10/2005
What is the difference in a P/Invoke signature between “byref byte” and “byte[]”?
Lately we’ve seen a spate of issues coming up on 64-bit platforms within the Developer Division...
Author: joshwil Date: 08/10/2005
Bit specific code in agnostic assemblies???
In previous blog entries I’ve spent some time talking about how to mark assemblies as bit specific...
Author: joshwil Date: 08/10/2005
Flipping bits on managed images to make them load with the right bitness...
In a number of blog entries I have discussed how on 64-bit machines .Net applications can run as...
Author: joshwil Date: 05/06/2005
Isn’t my code going to be faster on 64-bit???
[updated 10:50am 5/2/05: It turns out that I copied and pasted an error in my code from the...
Author: joshwil Date: 04/29/2005
How do exes/dlls generated with the /platform:x switch interact?
[fixed typo: 9:37am] I received a question about this recently, so i figured i'd elaborate here with...
Author: joshwil Date: 04/08/2005
Paint.Net is pretty cool, 20 minutes to get it running on 64-bit is even cooler!
Last night I played with Paint.Net for a while and got it running on the native 64-bit CLR with...
Author: joshwil Date: 04/07/2005
Good blog entries on .Net GC
I just ran across these, they are a couple of really good reads on the .Net GC......
Author: joshwil Date: 10/28/2004
Good reading about 64-bit .Net and the GAC... Via, Junfeng.
Here are a couple of really worthwhile entries written by Junfeng on the GAC, why you might compile...
Author: joshwil Date: 10/27/2004
How the OS Loader will force .Net v1.0/1.1 executables to run under WOW64 on a 64-Bit Machine
[10/15, 2:04pm, fixed a couple typos; 10/15, 4:51pm, clarified a point] Before you read this entry,...
Author: joshwil Date: 10/15/2004
XC#, seems like a really cool tool
I was just playing around with some stuff at home where I was wishing that we had compile time...
Author: joshwil Date: 10/07/2004
Mike Stall, CLR Debugger GURU is blogging!
Check out Mike's blog for tons of great insight into the CLR debugging APIs....
Author: joshwil Date: 09/30/2004
Formatting
My apologies to anyone who's having trouble reading my last post, it has some formatting problems...
Author: joshwil Date: 04/13/2004
ArrayList’s vs. generic List for primitive types and 64-bits
<edited post, 3:51pm, something in the formatting was messing up the whole page...> The...
Author: joshwil Date: 04/13/2004
Unsafe code, Stacks and IA64...
Sometimes the differences between platforms can show up in interesting ways. Last week I was looking...
Author: joshwil Date: 04/12/2004
I've been remiss
I know... I've been meaning to write more, but I've been really busy. I am going to Utah for a...
Author: joshwil Date: 04/01/2004
Behavior of 1.0/1.1 managed apps on 64bit machines
As I alluded to in my previous post there are multiple ways that we can go in terms of supporting...
Author: joshwil Date: 03/13/2004
As promised, what is the WOW64 and what does it mean to managed apps that you run on 64bit machines?
So, what is the WOW64? If you already have a firm grasp please feel free to skip these first few...
Author: joshwil Date: 03/11/2004
Some good 64bit background info (the next post will be about CLR and WOW64, promise!)
I plan to mix things up here a little bit, in that sometimes I'll talk about writing managed code to...
Author: joshwil Date: 03/10/2004
Bigger pointers == More traction!!
Start off with a joke... Isn't that what they recommend? This particular joke stems from when...
Author: joshwil Date: 03/10/2004