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.NET Framework 2.0 Wins JOLT Best Framework Award
The 16th annual JOLT awards were held last night. Microsoft did quite well this year: VS Team System...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/16/2006
New Challenges
A while back Brad mentioned a new challenge for himself. Now it's my turn. I recently took the role...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/14/2006
IronPython Beta 1 ready to go
I'm back from some long vacation, and got one last gift for the year in the form of beta 1! I want...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/04/2006
Don't panic: V2.0.50727.42 is the answer...
I'm very happy to announce that we have signed off on Whidbey and it will be available later today...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/27/2005
David Treadwell, VP of .NET Technologies, has a new blog
David is the Corporate Vice President of .NET Technologies, including the CLR, Asp.Net/IIS, .NET...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/27/2005
Who needs value types anyway?
I've totally lost my voice (quite literally cannot talk) here at the PDC and had to miss the Ask the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/16/2005
September WinFX CTP Online Now
The September release of the WinFX comonents have just been dropped following Eric Rudder's key...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/14/2005
Meet the CLR at the PDC
We made it to LA and took a Taco break in Culver City at Tito's Tacos, which Don says is one of the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/13/2005
64-bit Show and Lisp Conference Notes
Recently Larry Sullivan did a couple of 64-bit sessions. Larry is the development lead for our...
Author: Anonymous Date: 07/09/2005
A Cure for CTP Madness
Brad Abrams and Jason Sutherland have come up with a nice little site on Channel 9 which keeps track...
Author: Anonymous Date: 06/13/2005
Public Symbols for Beta 2 Now Posted
When I was in Atlanta debugging a customer application, I noticed that the Symbol Server didn't have...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/27/2005
Catchy headlines? Sure, but get the facts
Well it's been a fun and creative couple of days for headlines: Microsoft Recruits for .Net...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/26/2005
Calling all interns! Come work on IronPython, Rotor, CLR Profiler and more...
We're gearing up for another round of summer internships on the CLR team and I'm looking for more...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/26/2005
Missing Avalon or Indigo templates in VS 2005
I ran into a problem yesterday trying to create Avalon/Indigo projects in VS 2005 after installing...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/14/2005
Atlanta Visit, SOAP Formatter Issue
(note: I posted this originally on Thursday night right after a reboot of blogs.msdn.com but it...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/07/2005
How Was Your App Compat and Visual Studio 2005 Project Upgrade Experience?
We have been spending a huge amount of time working on application compatibility between V1.x and...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/25/2005
Beta 2 is done, eWeek visits the Whidbey ship room, time to go live!
By now hopefully you've seen that beta 2 has shipped. There are several interesting links: You can...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/18/2005
Questions around the IronPython License, Shared Source, and more
There have been a lot of questions about Microsoft's Shared Source program and the Licenses that...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/05/2005
.NET Compact Framework Perf Improvements
My peer on the Compact Frameworks team Mike Zintel has an interesting post about new performance...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/31/2005
Why should your language target the CLR?
In my post on a meeting with some JVM experts, I mentioned a few high level notes on our dynamic...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/24/2005
Announcing IronPython 0.7 Ready for Download
Today at PyCon, Jim Hugunin announced the availability of IronPython 0.7 which you can download from...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/23/2005
Microsoft Technology Summit Notes on the CLR
This morning I met with a group of industry influencers who are more exports in the JVM community. I...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/17/2005
Bucharest .NET User's Group
We just wrapped up our recruiting trip to Bucharest. On Monday 24-January, Brand, Ronald, and myself...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/30/2005
Headed to Romania for recruiting
A small group of us (from the CLR, Visual C++, and Visual Studio Team Systems teams) will be headed...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/18/2005
New tiny CLI implementations hit the market
Here are a couple of interesting new items based on the CLI: Axalto has produced a smartcard based...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/20/2004
November Community Tech Preview (CTP) with Standard Edition available
The November Community Tech Preview (CTP) has now been released. This drop contains a version of the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/14/2004
Oracle 10g Release 2 to support the CLR
Oracle is having their Openworld conference right now and has announced support for CLR stored...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/07/2004
Pointy Hair: The Best Internship Projects
As much as I love spending time writing code, a big (and important) part of my day job is running a...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/07/2004
New WinXP enabled version of Avalon up on MSDN
The Avalon team has dropped a new Customer Technology Preview (CTP) release that is now enabled to...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/20/2004
How much power is too much?
In the second section of the Channel 9 tour videos, Rico Mariani talks about performance and I once...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/18/2004
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...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/18/2004
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...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/25/2004
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...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/09/2004
Longhorn / WinFX news
I've been very busy with some, uh, scheduling issues this month. As you can imagine there is a lot...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/30/2004
Jason Zander and Amnon Horowitz on the MSDN's The .NET Show
Amnon and I did the MSDN show on Whidbey. I'd like to qualify that the camera likes to add a few...
Author: Anonymous Date: 07/30/2004
Welcome Jim Hugunin as the newest member of the CLR!
I'm back from a long vacation and very pleased that Jim has accepted my offer to join the CLR team...
Author: Anonymous Date: 07/28/2004
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...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/31/2004
Creator of SourceSafe, CLR luminary, and now Team System guy Brian Harry has a new blog
I was on the team which purchased OneTree software all those years back and had the pleasure of...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/27/2004
TechEd 2004, Reminiscing the v1.0 design, blogging paparazzi
TechEd 2004 has started in San Diego. Unlike the LA PDC, there were no forrest fires to deal with so...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/24/2004
New Performance Documentation on the CLR/.NET
Rico posted a link to some new (extensive) documentation on performance around .NET. The team did a...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/28/2004
New SOS debugging blog
Michael Stanton just posted a more detailed session of debugging with SOS. Michael is the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/05/2004
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...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/30/2004
Headed to the TwinCities .NET User Group
I'm headed back to Minnesota (born & raised) for an early x-mas vacation (I hear there's snow!)....
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/27/2003
Answer to Weak Reference Question
New Page 1 Ian Ringrose asked a question on my post about the PDC CLR architecture forum about inner...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/27/2003
Generics internals documentation from Microsoft Research
From Andrew Kennedy, one of the primary authors of the new CLR generics feature in the Whidbey...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/04/2003
How do you host managed code in your process?
The Interop White Paper can be found both online and on the PDC Longhorn DVD second disc. It's...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/30/2003
Hosting the CLR panel notes
Put the Power Inside: Hosting the CLR in Your Application Track: Panels Code: PNL07 Room: Room501ABC...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/30/2003