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We’re very excited that the .NET Framework 4 Beta is now available for public download, as .NET 4 has Parallel Extensions built into its core. You can download the Betas for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/dd582936.aspx.For more information on what’s new in Beta 1 regarding concur...

The public release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available and can be downloaded here. This is one of the most compelling updates to Visual Studio we’ve seen in years.  The entire IDE has been refreshed with a new look and all the code editors including the HTML and ASPX editors have replaced with a new extensible editor based on WPF....

Vance Morrison, a CLR architect, recently gave an interview to Channel 9 where he walks through the history of the CLR (he's been on our team since it's very beginning), the upcoming version, his favorite features in CLR v4, and what the future looks like. He also talks about concurrency (and the role that CLR plays), aspects of...

The Dynamic Language Runtime allows you to implement a dynamic language (such as Ruby or Python) on top of the CLR. There are a lot of challenges to making everything work right. One particularly difficult aspect was enabling Ruby to attach arbitrary "properties" to instanced .NET managed objects at runtime. If a Ruby developer sets an instance var...

Visual Studio 2010 has new debugger windows to support the Task-based programming model. Check out my blog post about the Parallel Tasks window.

This is the first in a series of posts where we discuss the reasoning behind “obsoleting” specific APIs. If you use AppDomain.AppendPrivatePath, or look at MSDN, you’ll notice it’s obsolete.  This frustrates people because the alternative suggested (AppDomainSetup.PrivateBinPath) requires you to do something entirely d...

Managed exception handling is built on Windows OS’s Structured Exception Handling, commonly referred to as SEH (to learn more about SEH, please read Matt Pietrek’s excellent article first). This implies that CLR understands how to interoperate between SEH and managed exception systems, which is a very key point since SEH is based upon the notion of...

Managed exception handling is built on Windows OS’s Structured Exception Handling, commonly referred to as SEH (to learn more about SEH, please read Matt Pietrek’s excellent article first). This implies that CLR understands how to interoperate between SEH and managed exception systems, which is a very key point since SEH is based upon the notion of...

We’ve mentioned Axum (formerly known as Maestro) before and we have some very good news: it’s up for you to try!Axum is an incubation .NET language that aims to make programming parallelism safe by focusing on isolation of state. It balances the efficiency of shared state and the safety of message-passing in one programming model. The f...

The May installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is now available on line.  This month we have an article from Aarthi Ramamurthy and Mark Miller on Understanding The CLR Binder.  It covers some best practices for assembly binding and loading using the CLR. You can find a list of all “CLR Inside ...