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CLR Updates in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: Kevin Frie, development lead for core parts of the CLR recently posted about what CLR updates that come in 3.5 SP1 .... NGen infrastructure rewrite : the new infrastructure uses less memory, produces less fragmented NGen images with much Read More...
Posted 19 August 08 07:57 by BradA | 10 Comments
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Brad Abrams' pixel8 Interview Podcast posted: I just noticed that the good folks at Pixel8 posted a podcast I did with them a while back. It was a fun conversation about a bit of .NET history as well as where we are going. Landing Page Download show I'd love the hear what you think! Read More...
Posted 15 March 08 11:40 by BradA | 1 Comments
Filed under CLR, ASP.NET, Silverlight
.NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster Updated: A while back I blogged about the .NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster... We made a few tweaks and updated it, including making it available in more formats. Download Links: Full XPS Split XPS PDF Tiled PDF Enjoy! Read More...
Posted 12 January 08 03:43 by BradA | 22 Comments
Filed under CLR, BCL, .NET Framework, WinForms, ASP.NET, WPF
NBC Direct: A new Companion App: I have been convinced for a while now that the industry is headed toward more of a companion application model... that is a model that offers the best of the web world in the browser and everywhere and the best of the client world out of browser. One Read More...
Posted 12 November 07 11:12 by BradA | 9 Comments
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.NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster: Many of you have asked for an update to the .NET Framework namespace poster for 3.5... Thanks to Paul Andrew , Kit George and many others, we now have it! See Paul's blog for more details... Download the full PDF to a color printer near you ;-) Read More...
Posted 03 November 07 08:20 by BradA | 21 Comments
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Poll: Allowing .NET EXEs to run off a network share: By default .NET applications (EXEs) that are launched from a remote file system (eg \\server\bin\SomeApp.exe ), will not be considered trusted and typically will fail (unless specifically designed to run with low trust). This is in direct contrast with Read More...
Posted 26 October 07 10:05 by BradA | 154 Comments
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What is your Allocation Number?: Rico is doing some very interesting work to get some sort of idea about the allocation overhead of using different parts of the .NET Framework. As he says, this is a fairly rough approximation done just with static analysis, but it does give you something Read More...
Posted 29 January 07 09:21 by BradA | 0 Comments
Filed under CLR, Framework Design Guidelines, .NET Framework
Patrick Dussud on CLR history: Patrick , one of the founding members of the CLR team, starts a blog by posting a brief bit about this history of the CLR. I dug up a few other bits of CLR history… Enjoy! History Of Csharp Brian Harry on the CLR My DotNet Rocks! show posted Resource Read More...
Posted 26 November 06 10:19 by BradA | 4 Comments
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Performance: You are only as good as your measurements: I recently had a fun time baking cookies with my three year old son.. He had a great time scooping out the floor, dumping in the sugar and plopping in the butter... but when they came out of oven and I took my first bite, I know something we dreadfully Read More...
Posted 05 August 06 02:41 by BradA | 3 Comments
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New Book: Professional .NET Framework 2.0: I just got my copy of Joe Duffy’s new book Professional .NET Framework 2.0 . Joe was a member of my team on the CLR during most of the time he wrote this book.. While I have not read it cover to cover yet, I can tell you it is going to be a good one. Read More...
Posted 12 April 06 06:15 by BradA | 3 Comments
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All those .NET Languages...: Someone recently forwarded me a couple of sites that are keeping up with all those .NET languages... Wow.. Does anyone know all of these ;-) www.dotnetlanguages.net http://www.dotnetpowered.com/languages.aspx Read More...
Posted 27 March 06 08:36 by BradA | 5 Comments
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Source code for CLR\BCL 2.0: Great news... Rotor V2.0 ships ... I have found Rotor a great way to look at (mostly) the real source code from the CLR and BCL to see what is really going on under the covers. Read More...
Posted 23 March 06 08:40 by BradA | 5 Comments
Filed under CLR, BCL
New CLR 2.0 book: I just saw that Jeff Richter’s CLR via C# is in stock on Amazon. This is an update to his very popular Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming and it covers a bunch of new goodies in CLR 2.0... I gotta say I love the title change... CLR via C# is Read More...
Posted 11 March 06 08:36 by BradA | 5 Comments
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BradA on .NET Rocks (a little belated): I am fairly late in noting that the spot that Joel Pobar and I did a while back on .NET Rocks was posted and Carl even did a bit for Code Magazine on it .. This one is CLR focused of course... maybe Carl and the gang will have me back on to talk about Read More...
Posted 07 February 06 03:00 by BradA | 1 Comments
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A new Opportunity for me...: As many of you know after you ship a major release there is inevitably a re-org as the teams get in alignment to deliver on the next set of opportunities… One of the outcomes of our post- Whidbey shuffle here at Microsoft was to create a product unit Read More...
Posted 19 January 06 02:10 by BradA | 16 Comments
Filed under CLR, .NETFx3.0, .NET Framework

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