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Fire up your favorite search engine, type in “mutable value types” and you might just feel a bit of pity for the poor little guys. It seems like everyone hates them. Truth be told, there’s a lot to dislike about them but before we get into the nastiness of mutable value types, let’s talk about why value types in general are oft-desirable. Value ty...

We have earlier discussed about Web Deployment and Web Packaging quite a bit, today I wanted to dive into web.config transformation. If you would like to check out the other topics please read through the earlier blog posts below: Usually web applications go through a chain of server deployments before being finally being deploy...

Eric Eilebrecht, a developer on our team, has just started a multi-part series on TheadPool improvements in the upcoming CLR v4.0. The first post is pretty fascinating and begins with a brief introduction on thread pools and it's design. The post deals with changes in thread pool's design, due to increasing core counts today. In the ...

A number of improvements have been made to Parallel Extensions since the Visual Studio 2010 CTP across the Task Parallel Library (TPL), Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), and our coordination data structures.  You can find the latest on TPL (1 2 3) and the data structures (link) on this blog.  Here are the big changes to PLINQ since that CTP: ...

ASP.Net MVC 1.0 RTM has been out for a while and I noticed that people are still downloading an NUnit sample project I created for ASP.Net MVC Preview 3. Since then an AccountController class and a corresponding set of unit tests have been added to the MVC Application project. I created an updated set of NUnit templates with tests for the Home and ...

 System.Threading.ThreadAbortException is just plain weird. For instance, most exceptions happen because of something code did on its own thread: even asynchronous exceptions are caused by something your code did on the current thread. (Note for the nitpickers: gamma rays can cause a bit in memory to flip randomly, bringing about unexpected pr...

We have started a new series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008. Over the course of next few weeks we will be adding many more videos to this series. These video tutorials will range in complexity from beginner to intermediate and will help Web developers build everything from simple Web applications to full featured Web soluti...

Related posts: So what else is new in TPL for Beta 1 (finally)?  In the last post, we mentioned that TaskFactory offers more static helper methods than just StartNew.  In this post, we’ll cover those methods (FromAsync, ContinueWhenAll, and ContinueWhenAny) as well as the new TaskScheduler class.FromAsyncIn order to better to integ...

Wcftestclient can be used to debug a WCF service. Here are two ways to enable wcftestclient debugging in Visual Studio VS2008 SP1 web applications. Tradition way: In Web application project property page, web tab, one can specify start external program and command line argument for IIS based WCF: 1. Check Use Local IIS Web server and create a vi...

The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is now available on line.  This month we have an article from Surupa Biswas on Optimizations In .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles here.  As always, please let us know if you have topics you’d like...