This is cool! From our friends on the .NET team, they are putting together a contest that features some real super cool prizes! If you have built a super cool or killer app with the .NET Framework, they would love to hear about it. So, check out http://www.mydotnetstory.com to enter and win!...
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Otherwise known, as "Return of the Giant Hogweed " Once upon a time , .NET was so new that there wasn't a Visual Studio .NET yet (the beta crashed every 5 minutes so you couldn't use it even if you wanted to), no books, few blogs and one had to use things like the Shared Source CLI or Rotor...
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Introduction to .NET Languages In other sections previous to this, we have examined the runtime and the Common Type System . Essentially then, a .NET application can be thought of some code to manipulate these types and call methods in the Base Class Library , along with the application's logic. .NET...
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Well, after so many happy posts from Peter and Ingo, and John Lam, I just had to jump in. After all, this was my chance to really learn about .NET, my baby, that I had spent the last two years with. What is Rotor? Rotor is the nickname foer the Microsoft Shared Source CLI Implementation. This is the...
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It’s The Runtime Stupid Just got off the phone with my friend Peter Drayton who”encouraged” me to post more of my original content that I have been holding back. I have been holding back this particular one, because I wanted my radio to stay completly technical and not offer any rants...
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I have been preaching for 7 years now about that the CLI/CLR was designed for cross-platform and the rest was packaging. Today, the news from MIX ‘07 was very exciting on the CLR front as well as many other fronts (to be covered later). Today that become concrete with the announcement of full CLR...
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I've been presuaded to bring out my Hardcore .NET (CLR Internals) out of retirement for DevTeach again this year. This post will be a record of trying to get an environment up and going..... Will it work on Vista? Does he still have his CLR chops? Stay tuned... Rotor You need to install ActivePerl 5...
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This is one reason why Scott Hanselman calls me an "Interop Beast" -)). We had a thorny COM Interop issue that was causing a crash in certain machine types. Every single pair on the team had worked on it for many hours for the last three weeks , in our Ship Cycle without success. It should...
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Based on a discussion I started here , I have created an Amazon Essentials list " Sam's Professional .NET List " of what I think should part and parcel of every Professional .NET Developer's collection. It's also part of my profile here . Check it out!...
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You've got to be kidding me . "The .NET Framework has always been at the core of WinFX, but the WinFX brand didn’t convey this. The WinFX brand helped us introduce the incredible innovations in terms of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows...
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