For everyone who attended MIX this year, we hope it was a lot of fun.
Brandon from our team, gave a talk on "Going Inside Microsoft Silverlight: Exploring the Core CLR" at MIX09 last week. The talk covers how the desktop CLR was slimmed down to be used for Silverlight, and in the process, covers Core CLR's architecture (...
Assumption: This write-up assumes that you are familiar with the managed exception handling constructs (e.g. catch, filter, fault, finally). If not, you may want to read this and also refer to the CLI specification. Managed exception handling exposes constructs to handle an exception (e.g. catch and filter blocks) and also to ...
It has been a few months since our last release of TlbImp on CodePlex. We recently released a new version of TlbImp – please visit the Codeplex page for this tool to find out more.
In this release, we’ve introduced two major features:
1. Ruled-based customization of interop assemblies
2. TlbImp regression test tool
Ruled-based ...
We’ve mentioned Code Contracts over on the BCL Blog a few times now, but never yet on the CLR Blog. Basically, Code Contracts are a way to add preconditions, post-conditions, and object invariants to your code. The goal is to help you catch developer errors earlier in the cycle. In my Introduction to Code Contracts post...
Kim Hamilton has a couple of excellent posts on the BCL Team blog.
In the first post on Working with the ResourceManager, Kim talks about the basics of resource generation, constructing a ResourceManager and how resource fallback works. The post also covers debugging resource loading failures using Fusion logs, Reflector and Resview.
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