Rick Byers
The CLR, diagnostics tool support and programming languages.
Leaving
After 6 great years at Microsoft, my wife and I have decided it's time to spend some time living...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 11/19/2010
Sample Reflection.Emit code for using exception filters from C#
In this post, I mentioned that one way to use exception filters from C# code is to generate them...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 01/30/2010
Quickly seeing where an exception may land in the debugger
A co-worker asked me recently how he could predict where an exception that was about to be thrown...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 09/01/2009
My school assignment required parsing PDB files
I'm just finishing up my Masters in Computer Science, and was surprised when I recently got an...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 06/09/2009
New interviews with my CLR team members up on Channel9
There are a bunch of great new CLR v4-related video interviews up on Channel9. In particular: Jon,...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 06/09/2009
AnyCPU Exes are usually more trouble than they're worth
Over the past few months I've had some interesting debates with folks here (and some customers)...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 06/09/2009
CCI is public on Codeplex
Herman Venter has just released his Common Compiler Infrastructure as an OpenSource project on...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 04/15/2009
Getting good dumps when an exception is thrown
Often, when an unexpected exception occurs in production code, applications want to generate (and...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 12/22/2008
CLR 4.0 advancements in diagnostics
We announced at PDC today that we're making some significant advances in diagnostics tool support...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 10/30/2008
ICorDebug re-architecture in CLR 4.0
In my previous post I mentioned that CLR 4.0 will support managed dump debugging through ICorDebug,...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 10/27/2008
Func-eval can fail while stopped in a non-optimized managed method that pushes more than 256 argument bytes
In this blog entry, Mike describes that func-eval will fail when not a GC-safe point. In VS this...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 08/16/2008
Invoking a virtual method non-virtually
Method calls using the C# ‘base’ keyword get compiled to an IL ‘call’ instruction, rather than the...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 08/16/2008
The CLR is hiring
This is just a quick reminder that we're always looking for talented people who are passionate about...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 05/19/2008
How is good software like good science?
I'm not one who believes mainstream large-scale software development really deserves the title of...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 09/18/2007
Customizing PDB lookup for source information in StackTrace
The System.Diagnostics.StackTrace class in .NET can be used to generate a textual representation of...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 06/22/2007
Code Sample - StackTrace with manual Symbol lookup
// Sample to demonstrate creating a stack trace with source location information while controlling...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 06/22/2007
Using LINQ for Computational Genomics
I’ve been playing around a bit lately with computational genomics (I’m doing a project for my...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 05/08/2007
More on generic variance
In my entry on generic variance in the CLR, I said that you can’t convert a List<String> to a...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 06/01/2006
Linq and the cost of additional language complexity
Uwe Keim posted a thought provoking comment in response to my entry about Linq. Here is an excerpt:...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 09/25/2005
Comparison of a simple select statement in DLinq (C# 3.0) vs. ADO.Net
Six months ago I posted a comparison of a simple select statement in C-omega vs. ADO.Net which some...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 09/25/2005
Interested in C-omega? LINQ finally announced!
Ever since I started planning for my users-group talk (and wrote this blog entry) about data access...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 09/13/2005
DebuggingModes.IgnoreSymbolStoreSequencePoints
In my last post I gave an overview of the DebuggableAttribute, what values the C# compiler gives it,...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 09/08/2005
DebuggableAttribute and dynamic assemblies
Mike Stall has a great little sample showing how to make your dynamically generated code debuggable....
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 06/27/2005
Run-time exception checking
One of our partners asked us how a .NET program can tell what the currently active “try” blocks are...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 04/30/2005
Comega talk
On Thursday I gave a .NET users group talk on Comega to somewhere around 100 .NET developers....
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 04/04/2005
Comparison of a simple select statement in C-omega vs. ADO.Net
In a couple weeks, I'm doing a talk at a .NET users group in Ontario about Cω. Cω is a cool research...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 03/20/2005
Generic type parameter variance in the CLR
When people start using C# generics for the first time, they are sometimes surprised that they can’t...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 02/17/2005
"Hello world" quiz answers
Matthew Cosier was the first person to post correct answers to all my Hello, World quiz questions,...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 02/08/2005
Disruptive Programming Language Technologies
"Disruptive Programming Language Technologies" (video, slides) is one of my favorite talks on the...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 02/06/2005
Hello, World!
Hi, my name is Rick Byers. I’m a developer on the Common Language Runtime (CLR) team at Microsoft. I...
Author: Rick Byers - exMSFT Date: 02/06/2005