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• Luke Hoban: ECMAScript 6

  Apr 19, 2012 at 6:13 PM

  hmmm.... "WebGL" & "THRRE.Mesh" in a Microsoft slide deck. interesting...

• IKVM.NET: Building a Java VM on the .NET Framework

  Apr 08, 2012 at 1:04 AM

  heh, nice way to go from meh to wow with one throw-away.

• Interactive Panel: Ask Us Anything!

  Feb 16, 2012 at 9:45 AM

  ok, so when do we get a clang frontend for MSVC? no joke.

• Visual Studio 2008/2010 and Arduino? Yep!

  Nov 16, 2011 at 11:43 AM

  If you're prepared to forego the arduino libs and use the native Atmel SDK, you can use AVR Studio 5 which includes a simulator/debugger and is built on VS2010 shell (doesn't require VS2010 license). You have to use avrdude yourself to squirt the compiled results to the arduino, but it works a charm. Just get a copy of the relevant datasheet and you're off...

• .NET 4.5: Eric St. John - Reducing Reboots During Framework Installation

  Oct 16, 2011 at 12:15 AM

  couldn't you just make sure everything's installed below a single directory and use junction points to switch the currently installed version?

• Checking In: Stephan T. Lavavej - Inside STL (the person, not the library)

  Oct 13, 2011 at 9:59 AM

  beware: shared_ptr uses Interlocked* to enforce thread safety on its refcounts. if you're false-sharing in the same cache line you can absolutely kill your app's performance.

  speaking of machine models, anyone care to explain pointers to members of classes with mutiple virtual bases? or what happens when an exception is thrown?

• The zen of async: Best practices for best performance

  Sep 23, 2011 at 9:05 AM

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• The zen of async: Best practices for best performance

  Sep 22, 2011 at 3:44 PM

  great talk.

  are there any plans to make MemoryStream.BeginRead synchronous like it was in .NET 1.1 ?

• Windows Runtime internals: understanding "Hello World"

  Sep 21, 2011 at 5:12 PM

  please, next time Matt asks for a 2-hour slot for his talk, GIVE IT TO HIM!

• Visual Studio Toolbox: Reporting Performance Issues with PerfWatson

  Jun 30, 2011 at 11:17 AM

  not related to >2s hangs, but wrt performance, can you guys take a look at the following debugger windows:

  • callstack
  • locals
  • watch

  having any one of these open when stopped at a breakpoint brings the IDE to a crawl (see the visible lag when resizing the IDE.)

  interestingly enough, the autos window doesn't exhibit this behavior.

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