Channel 9 - Entries tagged with .NET Framework 4.5 Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with .NET Framework 4.5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/.net+4.5 Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/.net+4.5 en Sun, 19 May 2013 17:32:26 GMT Sun, 19 May 2013 17:32:26 GMT Rev9 20 1 25 TWC9: IllumiRoom, VS/TFS2012 RC news, TFS OData, Source History Visualization and more This week on Channel 9, Clint and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including;

Picks of the week!

  • [10:40] Clint's and Dan's Pick of the Week
]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-January-11-2013 This week on Channel 9, Clint and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including; [0:42] MSR shows off IllumiRoom [2:10] VS/TFS 2012 Release Candidate expiring (Brian Harry) [2:44] Git-TF 2.0.1 Released (Brian Harry) [3:28] OData Service for Team Foundation Server v2 (Brian Keller) [4:33] TFS Source Control History Visualization (Alexandr Biryukov) [5:57] Apache Cordova [fka PhoneGap] and Windows Phone 8 (Jesse MacFadyen) [6:37] MEF 2.0 TOC (Bnaya Eshet) [7:52] Gemicon Icon Set (600 PNG Icons + PSD Source) (Smashing Editorial), The Noun Project [8:51] Recent Updates to the Windows Azure SDK - .NET 4.5, Windows Server 2012 and more (Mohit Srivastava, Dennis Angeline) [9:31] Codecademy adds API training with YouTube, NPR, Bit.ly, and 6 other services to help new devs build actual products (John Koetsier) Picks of the week! [10:40] Clint's and Dan's Pick of the Week 680 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-January-11-2013 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:42:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-January-11-2013 Brian Keller, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez Brian Keller, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-January-11-2013/RSS MEF Microsoft Research Odata Source Control Team Foundation Server TFS .NET Framework 4.5 TWC9: Azure Conf, Unit Test, High Perf JavaScript, Inside WinRT, Kinect Browser This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including;

Picks of the Week!

 

Programming Note: Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday in the US next week, there will be much turkey eating and no TWC9...

Microsoft'ism Translation: "Magic Folder" (mentioned by Brian as "Magic Foldering") is the in-house service we wrote to encode our videos for all the different formats, prep them for publishing, etc. It's one of the magic parts that powers Channel 9

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-November-16-2012 This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including; [0:36] Windows AzureConf 2012 [1:15] Announcing the Latest Release of Office Developer Tools (Grace Kochavi) [2:46] Building quality Windows 8 apps: Important pre-submission checks for your Windows Store apps (Pete Brown) [3:44] How to manage unit tests in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 : Part 1–Using Traits in the Unit Test Explorer (Terje Sandstrom (via Charles Sterling)) [5:24] Windows 8 Development + Blendability (Braulio Diez) [6:44] IntelliTrace: Making On Time Shipping Possible (John Robbins) [7:42] Scaling cloud apps with the .NET Framework 4.5 (Richard Lander) [8:43] //build/ Flashback: Building High-Performing JavaScript for Modern Engines [9:43] Inside Windows 8: The Windows Runtime (Martyn Lovell and Elliot H Omiya) [10:57] OpenGL for WinRT Picks of the Week! Brian's Pick of the Week:[11:54] Designing by Making: your process for arranging furniture can point toward a good process for UI design (Jan Miksovsky) Dan's Pick of the Week:[12:58] Kinected Browser - Kinect On The Web (Harry Fairhead)   Programming Note: Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday in the US next week, there will be much turkey eating and no TWC9... Microsoft'ism Translation: "Magic Folder" (mentioned by Brian as "Magic Foldering") is the in-house service we wrote to encode our videos for all the different formats, prep them for publishing, etc. It's one of the magic parts that powers Channel 9 918 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-November-16-2012 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 04:02:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-November-16-2012 Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-November-16-2012/RSS Azure Blend Kinect Microsoft Office Unit Testing Visual Studio Windows 8 .NET Framework 4.5 WinRT Mani Ramaswamy and Peter Sollich: Inside Compiler in the Cloud and MDIL By now you've learned that the CLR, Windows Phone Client, and Windows Phone Services teams got together to develop "Compiler in the Cloud". All Windows Phone 8 apps written in .NET technologies will get the benefit of this collaboration. The end goal? Really fast startup of Windows Phone 8 .NET apps.

"Compiler in the Cloud?", you ask. 

The idea is pretty simple. First, enter MDIL or Machine Dependent Intermediate Language or .NET hybrid assembly language. MDIL is all about compiling to native assembly instructions whenever possible, and compile the rest to pseudo instructions that can quickly be translated to native instructions on the phone. Thus, this assembly containing a mix of pseudo instructions and native instructions can be shipped to the device (and is portable across the same architecture - example, across all the ARM devices), and on the device we perform a light-weight linking step to convert the entire assembly to a native image. Most of the heavy lifting is done when we compile the IL assembly to the intermediate file between an IL assembly and a native image (this is what MDIL is).

"So what?", you ask. The linking step on the device that converts MDIL assembly to a native image only takes 1/5th the time as traditional NGEN on device. Thus, we get some of the benefits of both pre-compilation (since we are executing off the native image where all instructions are assembly instructions) and JIT-compilation (no heavy compilation on the device during framework updates).

Tune in to meet the program manager for code generation in .NET, Subramanian (Mani) Ramaswamy, and one of the lead developers of "Compiler in the Cloud", Peter Sollich. Peter is an expert in precompilation. We go quite deep here with plenty of whiteboarding. Peter teaches us exactly what MDIL is and why it's designed the way it is. We also talk about the higher level meaning in this (apps start fast, at native speed!). All around, it's a great Going Deep episode. Take the time to watch and learn. Thanks Mani and Peter!!

See Subramanian's BUILD 2012 session where he goes into detail on MDIL/Compiler in the Cloud and other performance/functionality improvement in .NET for Windows Phone 8.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-and-Peter-Sollich-Inside-Compiler-in-the-Cloud-and-MDIL By now you've learned that the CLR, Windows Phone Client, and Windows Phone Services teams got together to develop "Compiler in the Cloud". All Windows Phone 8 apps written in .NET technologies will get the benefit of this collaboration. The end goal? Really fast startup of Windows Phone 8 .NET apps. "Compiler in the Cloud?", you ask. The idea is pretty simple. First, enter MDIL or Machine Dependent Intermediate Language or .NET hybrid assembly language. MDIL is all about compiling to native assembly instructions whenever possible, and compile the rest to pseudo instructions that can quickly be translated to native instructions on the phone. Thus, this assembly containing a mix of pseudo instructions and native instructions can be shipped to the device (and is portable across the same architecture - example, across all the ARM devices), and on the device we perform a light-weight linking step to convert the entire assembly to a native image. Most of the heavy lifting is done when we compile the IL assembly to the intermediate file between an IL assembly and a native image (this is what MDIL is). "So what?", you ask. The linking step on the device that converts MDIL assembly to a native image only takes 1/5th the time as traditional NGEN on device. Thus, we get some of the benefits of both pre-compilation (since we are executing off the native image where all instructions are assembly instructions) and JIT-compilation (no heavy compilation on the device during framework updates).Tune in to meet the program manager for code generation in .NET, Subramanian (Mani) Ramaswamy, and one of the lead developers of "Compiler in the Cloud", Peter Sollich. Peter is an expert in precompilation. We go quite deep here with plenty of whiteboarding. Peter teaches us exactly what MDIL is and why it's designed the way it is. We also talk about the higher level meaning in t 3062 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-and-Peter-Sollich-Inside-Compiler-in-the-Cloud-and-MDIL Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:45:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-and-Peter-Sollich-Inside-Compiler-in-the-Cloud-and-MDIL Charles Charles 8 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-and-Peter-Sollich-Inside-Compiler-in-the-Cloud-and-MDIL/RSS .NET Compilers Programming .NET Framework 4.5 Windows Phone 8 .NET 4.5 - Multicore JIT Multicore JIT is a .NET 4.5 compiler technology that uses parallelization to reduce the JIT compilation time during application startup.

Multicore JIT team says:

"With Multicore JIT, methods are compiled on two cores in parallel. The more code you execute on your startup path, the more effective Multicore JIT will be at reducing startup time. Improvements of 20%-50% are very typical, which is great news to anyone developing medium to large .NET Framework applications that are not able to take advantage of NGen. You can improve the startup time of your application by up to 50% with very little work, even if it runs off of a USB stick."

Who better to explain this than .NET Performance Architect Vance Morrison and Multicore JIT program manager Dan Taylor? They are joined by software engineer Rick Brewster from the Windows team to discuss how this technology works and why it matters. Rick works on a large .NET Windows desktop application and Multicore JIT has clearly sped up his app's startup time. We'll get the inside scoop from both those who designed the technology and those who use it in production.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Multicore-JIT Multicore JIT is a .NET 4.5 compiler technology that uses parallelization to reduce the JIT compilation time during application startup.Multicore JIT team says: "With Multicore JIT, methods are compiled on two cores in parallel. The more code you execute on your startup path, the more effective Multicore JIT will be at reducing startup time. Improvements of 20%-50% are very typical, which is great news to anyone developing medium to large .NET Framework applications that are not able to take advantage of NGen. You can improve the startup time of your application by up to 50% with very little work, even if it runs off of a USB stick."Who better to explain this than .NET Performance Architect Vance Morrison and Multicore JIT program manager Dan Taylor? They are joined by software engineer Rick Brewster from the Windows team to discuss how this technology works and why it matters. Rick works on a large .NET Windows desktop application and Multicore JIT has clearly sped up his app's startup time. We'll get the inside scoop from both those who designed the technology and those who use it in production. 2250 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Multicore-JIT Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Multicore-JIT Charles Charles 11 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Multicore-JIT/rss Compilers JIT Performance .NET Framework 4.5 Visual Studio 2012 TWC9: Kinect Roadmap, Photo->Cloud Tutorials, Windows 8 @ SourceForge, ILRewriting and more This week on Channel 9, Clint and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including;

Picks of the Week!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-September-07-2012 This week on Channel 9, Clint and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including; [0:46] Kinect for Windows Fall Roadmap (Craig Eisler) [1:44] Releasing the new Sample Browser for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2010 (Jialiang Ge) [2:39] How To Take Photographs From Windows 8 Applications And Automatically Upload Them To The Cloud–Part 6 of 6 (Bruno Terkaly) [3:04] Tutorial Series: using WinJS & WinRT to build a fun HTML5 Camera Application for Windows 8 (1/4) (David Rousset) [3:51] Using the trial API in your WinJS game (Alice Pang) [5:09] Windows 8 Center at SourceForge [5:58] A .NET 4.5 Parallel Dataflow Primer (Eric Vogel) [6:40] Visual Studio 2012: Did You Call Me? (Deborah Kurata) [7:44] ILRewriting for beginners (Mattias Högström) Picks of the Week! Clint's Pick of the Week:[9:12] World’s Funniest Halloween Costume Dan's Pick of the Week:[9:58] Nokia Lumia 920 722 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-September-07-2012 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:13:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-September-07-2012 Brian Keller, Clint Rutkas, Greg Duncan Brian Keller, Clint Rutkas, Greg Duncan 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-September-07-2012/RSS Kinect Visual Studio Windows Azure Windows 8 .NET Framework 4.5 Kinect SDK .NET 4.5 in Practice: Bing .NET GC developer Maoni Stephens, Performance Architect Vance Morrison and Bing front end developer Mukul Sabharwal join us for a conversation about .NET 4.5 in practice.

We spent some time with the.NET 4.5 team earlier in the year. You can see the series of conversational interviews we did here.

The Bing front end is powered by .NET 4.5 and Windows Server 2012 RC. This constitutes a large number of servers doing a lot of work. How do some of the new .NET 4.5 features (like multi-core JIT and background GC) scale? Bing's a rather good test case for both .NET 4.5 and WS 2012 given the volume of requests it serves.

Topics include:

Pinning and Heap Corruption (and strategies for alternative approaches to pinning).

Multicore JIT

Performance tuning and PerfView

Background GC

As usual, this is conversation that happened as it did. There will be a few random turns, but roads lead to time well spent! Thanks for being sports, Maoni, Vance and Mukul!

Tune in. Enjoy

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/NET-45-in-Practice-Bing .NET GC developer Maoni Stephens, Performance Architect Vance Morrison and Bing front end developer Mukul Sabharwal join us for a conversation about .NET 4.5 in practice. We spent some time with the.NET 4.5 team earlier in the year. You can see the series of conversational interviews we did here. The Bing front end is powered by .NET 4.5 and Windows Server 2012 RC. This constitutes a large number of servers doing a lot of work. How do some of the new .NET 4.5 features (like multi-core JIT and background GC) scale? Bing's a rather good test case for both .NET 4.5 and WS 2012 given the volume of requests it serves. Topics include: Pinning and Heap Corruption (and strategies for alternative approaches to pinning). Multicore JIT Performance tuning and PerfView Background GC As usual, this is conversation that happened as it did. There will be a few random turns, but roads lead to time well spent! Thanks for being sports, Maoni, Vance and Mukul! Tune in. Enjoy 2240 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/NET-45-in-Practice-Bing Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:58:46 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/NET-45-in-Practice-Bing Charles Charles 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/NET-45-in-Practice-Bing/RSS Bing GC JIT Performance Programming .NET Framework 4.5 DEV281 - Visual Studio 11, .NET 4.5, and Parallelism LIVE Q&A with Colin Bowern

Live Q&A with Colin Bowern.

DEV281 - Visual Studio 11, .NET 4.5, and Parallelism
We're still a few months away from its release, but the beta version of Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 is available and with a Go-Live license too. With Visual Studio, reduction and simplification are the keywords. For .NET, assistance with parallelism this session is the big topic. Between these and other topics, the tools that will make your development life easier are covered.

Watch the session >>

This Session's Experts

Colin Bowern (Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn)

This session was recorded live at ObjectSharp's annual "At The Movies" event - May 1, 2012, Scotiabank Theatre, Toronto, Ontario.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/techdaysca/DEV281QA Live Q&A with Colin Bowern. DEV281 - Visual Studio 11, .NET 4.5, and ParallelismWe're still a few months away from its release, but the beta version of Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 is available and with a Go-Live license too. With Visual Studio, reduction and simplification are the keywords. For .NET, assistance with parallelism this session is the big topic. Between these and other topics, the tools that will make your development life easier are covered. Watch the session >> This Session's Experts Colin Bowern (Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn) This session was recorded live at ObjectSharp's annual "At The Movies" event - May 1, 2012, Scotiabank Theatre, Toronto, Ontario. 355 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/techdaysca/DEV281QA Tue, 22 May 2012 18:47:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/techdaysca/DEV281QA Colin Bowern, Jonathan Rozenblit Colin Bowern, Jonathan Rozenblit 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/techdaysca/DEV281QA/RSS Developer Tools MVC Parallelism Async CTP .NET Framework 4.5 Visual Studio 11 Async DEV281 - Visual Studio 11, .NET 4.5, and Parallelism

We're still a few months away from its release, but the beta version of Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 is available and with a Go-Live license too. With Visual Studio, reduction and simplification are the keywords. For .NET, assistance with parallelism this session is the big topic. Between these and other topics, the tools that will make your development life easier are covered.

Watch the live Q&A with Colin Bowern >>

This Session's Experts

Colin Bowern (Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn)

This session was recorded live at ObjectSharp's annual "At The Movies" event - May 1, 2012, Scotiabank Theatre, Toronto, Ontario.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/techdaysca/DEV281 We're still a few months away from its release, but the beta version of Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 is available and with a Go-Live license too. With Visual Studio, reduction and simplification are the keywords. For .NET, assistance with parallelism this session is the big topic. Between these and other topics, the tools that will make your development life easier are covered. Watch the live Q&A with Colin Bowern >> This Session's Experts Colin Bowern (Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn) This session was recorded live at ObjectSharp's annual "At The Movies" event - May 1, 2012, Scotiabank Theatre, Toronto, Ontario. 1705 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/techdaysca/DEV281 Tue, 22 May 2012 17:18:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/techdaysca/DEV281 Colin Bowern, Jonathan Rozenblit Colin Bowern, Jonathan Rozenblit 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/techdaysca/DEV281/RSS Developer Tools MVC Parallelism Async CTP .NET Framework 4.5 Visual Studio 11 Async TWC9: VS11 RC UI Updates, Portable Library v2 Beta, Hilo for Win 8 and more This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including:

Picks of the Week!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-May-11-2012 This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including: [0:28] Visual Studio 11 User Interface Updates Coming in RC (Monty Hammontree) [2:05] Announcing Portable Library Tools 2 Beta for Visual Studio 2010 [Mircea] (BCL Team) [3:57] Check out Hilo for Windows 8! (Thomas Petchel), http://hilo.codeplex.com [4:56] Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Looking back–what would we do differently (12 of 12) (Andreas Hammar, Håkan Reis and Peter von Lochow) [6:09] .NET 4.5 Baby Steps: Series Index (Robert MacLean) [7:13] Visual Studio 2010: Version and update information tool, VersionInfo (Terje Sandstrom) [8:07] Scott Guthrie on Cloud-Powered Revolutions (Jonathan Rozenblit and Scott Guthrie) Picks of the Week! Clint's Pick of the Week: [9:06] Wolfenstein 3D Turns 20, iD Showers Gamers With Gratis Goodies Dan's Pick of the Week: [9:50] 'TeleHuman' taps Kinect for 3D holographic videoconferencing 675 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-May-11-2012 Sat, 12 May 2012 00:39:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-May-11-2012 Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan 8 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-May-11-2012/RSS .NET .NET Framework C++ Visual Studio Windows 8 .NET Framework 4.5 DEV380 - What's New in Visual Studio 11 Beta

It's exciting times for software developers, with the beta release of Visual Studio 11 and the .NET Framework 4.5. In addition, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and associated tools to create stunning new apps are here! There's so much new in the Visual Studio tooling, it's hard to know where to start! In this session, you'll walk through the new IDE, new application models and designers, and new language capabilities that give developers incredible productivity enhancements and let them quickly build the next generation of their applications.

This Session's Experts

Adam Gallant (Twitter, LinkedIn, Blog)

This session was recorded live on TechDays TV - March 27, 2012. Join host Jonathan Rozenblit every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 12:00 PM EST for live TechDays presentations on the very latest in technical training topics.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/techdaysca/DEV380 It's exciting times for software developers, with the beta release of Visual Studio 11 and the .NET Framework 4.5. In addition, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and associated tools to create stunning new apps are here! There's so much new in the Visual Studio tooling, it's hard to know where to start! In this session, you'll walk through the new IDE, new application models and designers, and new language capabilities that give developers incredible productivity enhancements and let them quickly build the next generation of their applications. This Session's Experts Adam Gallant (Twitter, LinkedIn, Blog) This session was recorded live on TechDays TV - March 27, 2012. Join host Jonathan Rozenblit every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 12:00 PM EST for live TechDays presentations on the very latest in technical training topics. 2245 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/techdaysca/DEV380 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:47:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/techdaysca/DEV380 Jonathan Rozenblit Jonathan Rozenblit 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/techdaysca/DEV380/RSS Developer Tools Team Foundation Server Windows 8 .NET Framework 4.5 Visual Studio 11 Windows User Interface Joel Semeniuk and David Wesst on Touring Visual Studio 11 Beta Read the full post >>

MVPs Joel Semeniuk and David Wesst share what they're excited about in the new version of Visual Studio.

Questions? Comments? Share them with myself, the team, and the larger Canadian developer community – start a conversation in the Canadian Developer Connection group on LinkedIn.

Joel Semeniuk
Joel is a founder of Imaginet and also services as the Executive VP at Telerik in charge of the Agile Project Management division. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Microsoft ALM and has a degree in Computer Science. With over 18 years of experience, Joel specializes in helping organizations around the world realize their potential through maturing their software development and information technology practices. Joel is passionate about Application Lifecycle Management tooling, techniques, and mindsets and regularly speaks at conferences around the world on a wide range of ALM topics. Joel is also the co-author of "Managing Projects with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System" published by Microsoft Press as well as dozens of other articles for popular trade magazines.

David Wesst
David Wesst has been working with web and user experience development for the past 5 years and currently works for Imaginet as a User Experience Consultant in Winnipeg, Manitoba. After finishing university, David has continued to follow his passion about the future of web development, experience design, technology, and game development both in and outside of the workplace. David has spoken at a number of conferences across Canada about HTML5 development and recently received his MVP award in the area of Internet Explorer.

D³: LIVE & INTERACTiVE
In case you haven't heard about the show, Developers, Developers, Developers: LIVE & INTERACTIVE (D³) is a monthly show hosted by Jonathan Rozenblit. The show airs live every first Wednesday of the month at 12:00 PM ET and features the latest updates on what's new and exciting in the world of development; featured presentations; and guests. LIVE and INTERACTIVE means that you'll be part of the show – You're invited to interact with us; ask questions and get them answered; and share your thoughts and opinions.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/devsdevsdevs/D3EP402 Read the full post >> MVPs Joel Semeniuk and David Wesst share what they're excited about in the new version of Visual Studio. Questions? Comments? Share them with myself, the team, and the larger Canadian developer community – start a conversation in the Canadian Developer Connection group on LinkedIn. Joel SemeniukJoel is a founder of Imaginet and also services as the Executive VP at Telerik in charge of the Agile Project Management division. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Microsoft ALM and has a degree in Computer Science. With over 18 years of experience, Joel specializes in helping organizations around the world realize their potential through maturing their software development and information technology practices. Joel is passionate about Application Lifecycle Management tooling, techniques, and mindsets and regularly speaks at conferences around the world on a wide range of ALM topics. Joel is also the co-author of "Managing Projects with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System" published by Microsoft Press as well as dozens of other articles for popular trade magazines. David Wesst David Wesst has been working with web and user experience development for the past 5 years and currently works for Imaginet as a User Experience Consultant in Winnipeg, Manitoba. After finishing university, David has continued to follow his passion about the future of web development, experience design, technology, and game development both in and outside of the workplace. David has spoken at a number of conferences across Canada about HTML5 development and recently received his MVP award in the area of Internet Explorer. D³: LIVE & INTERACTiVE In case you haven't heard about the show, Developers, Developers, Developers: LIVE & INTERACTIVE (D³) is a monthly show hosted by Jonathan Rozenblit. The show airs live every first Wednesday of the month at 12:00 PM ET and features the latest updates on what's new and exciting in the world of deve 1554 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/devsdevsdevs/D3EP402 Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:49:26 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/devsdevsdevs/D3EP402 Jonathan Rozenblit Jonathan Rozenblit 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/devsdevsdevs/D3EP402/RSS Beta MVP Team Foundation Server TFS Visual Studio .NET Framework 4.5 Visual Studio 11 .NET 4.5: BCL Team - Improvements and Evolution It's been about two years since we last had the chance to discuss changes, improvements and evolution in .NET's base class library (BCL) with some of the folks who write and maintain it. The next version of the BCL will ship as part of .NET 4.5. What's new? What did they focus on for the next release? What's next? Here we meet Matt Ellis, Immo Landwerh, Weitao Su, Nicholas Blumhardt, Alok Shriram, Kevin Ransom, Brian Grunkemeyer, Greg Paperin and Daniel Plaisted.

Specific topics covered: Async across the framework, read-only collections, ETW APIs,  Reflection Context, MEF, WeakReference<T> and more.

Tune in. Meet the BCL 4.5 team.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Conversation-with-the-BCL-Team-Improvements-Evolution-and-More It's been about two years since we last had the chance to discuss changes, improvements and evolution in .NET's base class library (BCL)&nbsp;with some of the folks who write and maintain it. The next version of the BCL will ship as part of .NET 4.5. What's new? What did they focus on for the next release? What's next? Here we meet Matt Ellis, Immo Landwerh, Weitao Su, Nicholas Blumhardt, Alok Shriram, Kevin Ransom, Brian Grunkemeyer, Greg Paperin&nbsp;and Daniel Plaisted. Specific topics covered: Async across the framework, read-only collections, ETW APIs,&nbsp; Reflection Context, MEF, WeakReference&lt;T&gt; and more. Tune in. Meet the BCL 4.5 team. 2849 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Conversation-with-the-BCL-Team-Improvements-Evolution-and-More Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:58:50 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Conversation-with-the-BCL-Team-Improvements-Evolution-and-More Charles Charles 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Conversation-with-the-BCL-Team-Improvements-Evolution-and-More/rss BCL MEF reference implementation .NET Framework 4.5 CLR 4.5 .NET 4.5: Size-on-disk improvements In the next release of .NET (version 4.5), less disk space will be used to store .NET on your system. In fact, roughly 40% less space than is required today in some cases. This is a significant milestone for .NET. Besides taking up less physical space inside your desktop PC, .NET 4.5 will fit onto your more disk-space-limited devices (like a tablet, for example...). Here, we meet Layla Driscoll, the Program Manager for this project, and Ashok Kamath, the Development Lead for this project.

How do you make something 40% smaller and not remove a bunch of stuff? What did they do? What strategies were employed? What did they learn about the overall .NET system while figuring out how to take up less room when installed? What's next?

Tune in.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Size-on-disk-improvements In the next release of .NET (version 4.5), less disk space will be used to store .NET on your system. In fact, roughly 40% less space than is required today in some cases. This is a significant milestone for .NET. Besides taking up less physical space inside your desktop PC, .NET 4.5 will fit onto your more disk-space-limited devices (like a tablet, for example...). Here, we meet Layla Driscoll, the Program Manager for this project, and Ashok Kamath, the Development Lead for this project. How do you make something 40% smaller and not remove a bunch of stuff? What did they do? What strategies were employed? What did they learn about the overall .NET system while figuring out how to take up less room when installed? What's next? Tune in. 1818 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Size-on-disk-improvements Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:50:09 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Size-on-disk-improvements Charles Charles 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Size-on-disk-improvements/rss .NET Framework 4.5 CLR 4.5 Bart De Smet: Rx Update - .NET 4.5, Async, WinRT Bart De Smet has been very busy. As you can imagine, the latest release of Rx (v1.11011.11 (Experimental)) supports the latest (developer preview) .NET version, 4.5. In this release, Bart and company have forged a deeper synergy with the async/await Task-based asynchrony model (see Prefer Async Policy in the Release Notes for this release for more info and watch/listen to this conversation!). In addition, Rx can be used in "Windows 8" Metro style apps. Smiley

Rx v1.11011.11 (Experimental) features include:

Improved Exception Management

Prefer Async Policy

Interoperability with Task<T>

FromEventPattern Support for WinRT Events Various Changes to System.Reactive The New

System.Reactive.WindowsRuntime Assembly

This release of Rx includes support for WinRT interop and to build Metro style applications leveraging Rx for event processing

IAsyncInfo Conversions

Release Notes

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Bart-De-Smet-Rx-Updat-NET-45-Async-WinRT Bart De Smet has been very busy. As you can imagine, the latest release of Rx (v1.11011.11 (Experimental)) supports the latest (developer preview) .NET version, 4.5. In this release, Bart and company have forged a deeper synergy with the async/await Task-based asynchrony model (see Prefer Async Policy in the Release Notes for this release for more info and watch/listen to this conversation!). In addition, Rx can be used in &quot;Windows 8&quot; Metro style apps. Rx v1.11011.11 (Experimental) features include: Improved Exception Management Prefer Async Policy Interoperability with Task&lt;T&gt; FromEventPattern Support for WinRT Events Various Changes to System.Reactive The New System.Reactive.WindowsRuntime Assembly This release of Rx includes support for WinRT interop and to build Metro style applications leveraging Rx for event processing IAsyncInfo Conversions Release Notes Download 2613 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Bart-De-Smet-Rx-Updat-NET-45-Async-WinRT Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:51:44 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Bart-De-Smet-Rx-Updat-NET-45-Async-WinRT Charles Charles 21 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Bart-De-Smet-Rx-Updat-NET-45-Async-WinRT/RSS Bart De Smet Reactive Extensions Rx Task Parallel Library Windows 8 .NET Framework 4.5 .NET 4.5: Eric St. John - Reducing Reboots During Framework Installation Software developer Eric St. John explains the work he and team have done to limit the necessity for reboots during the installation of the .NET Framework version 4.5 (now in Developer Preview mode). It's quite amazing how complex installation can be and the amount of work an installer has to do to enable the best possible experience for users installing the software. Eric and team have done some great work in the next release of .NET to limit the amount of time it takes to get the framework on your system (rebooting = time spent waiting). Tune in to hear the story behind this and meet Eric.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Reducing-Reboots-during-Framework-Installation Software developer Eric St. John explains the work he and team have done to limit the necessity for reboots during the installation of the&nbsp;.NET Framework version 4.5&nbsp;(now in Developer Preview mode). It's quite amazing how complex installation can be and the amount of work an installer has to do to enable the best possible experience for users installing the software. Eric and team have done some great work in the next release of .NET to limit the amount of time it takes to get the framework on your system (rebooting = time spent waiting). Tune in to hear the story behind this and meet Eric. 2489 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Reducing-Reboots-during-Framework-Installation Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:39:19 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Reducing-Reboots-during-Framework-Installation Charles Charles 12 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Reducing-Reboots-during-Framework-Installation/rss Installation .NET Framework 4.5 .NET 4.5: Oleg Lvovitch and Kevin Ransom - Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) 2.0 The Managed Extensibility Framework (or MEF for short) simplifies the creation of extensible applications. MEF offers discovery and composition capabilities that you can leverage to load application extensions. In the upcoming release of .NET 4.5, MEF will ship version 2.0. Recently, I got a chance to meet and chat with MEF developers Oleg Lvovitch and Kevin Ransom. What is MEF? What problems does MEF solve? What improvements have been made in v2.0? How are people using MEF in the real world? What changes in BCL 4.5 helped shape new features or improvements/refinement? These questions and more get answered by those who know best. Great meeting and chatting with you, Oleg and Kevin.

Great work going on in MEF world! Tune in. Enjoy.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Oleg-Lvovitch-and-Kevin-Ransom-Managed-Extensibility-Framework-MEF-20 The Managed Extensibility Framework (or MEF for short) simplifies the creation of extensible applications. MEF offers discovery and composition capabilities that you can leverage to load application extensions. In the upcoming release of .NET 4.5, MEF will ship version 2.0. Recently, I got a chance to meet and chat with MEF developers&nbsp;Oleg Lvovitch and Kevin Ransom. What is MEF? What problems does MEF solve? What improvements have been made in v2.0? How are people using MEF in the real world? What changes in BCL 4.5 helped shape new features or improvements/refinement? These questions and more get answered by those who know best. Great meeting and chatting with you, Oleg and Kevin. Great work going on in MEF world! Tune in. Enjoy. 2367 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Oleg-Lvovitch-and-Kevin-Ransom-Managed-Extensibility-Framework-MEF-20 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:53:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Oleg-Lvovitch-and-Kevin-Ransom-Managed-Extensibility-Framework-MEF-20 Charles Charles 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Oleg-Lvovitch-and-Kevin-Ransom-Managed-Extensibility-Framework-MEF-20/rss MEF .NET Framework 4.5 .NET 4.5: Vance Morrison - Performance and Memory Diagnostics Performance Architect Vance Morrison spends his time isolating and solving performance issues in the .NET framework and Visual Studio, and Vance and team have recently been busy tuning the performance and memory usage characteristics of .NET's upcoming release.

Here, we learn about some of the performance and memory usage issues that Vance has focused on for .NET 4.5, which will ship in the next version of Visual Studio. If you're a .NET developer, you'll be pleased to learn about the great work that's going on in this area in addition to the development of a new memory diagnostics tool...

Tune in.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Vance-Morrison-Performance-and-Memory-Usage-Improvements Performance Architect Vance Morrison spends his time isolating and solving performance issues in&nbsp;the&nbsp;.NET framework and Visual Studio, and Vance and team have recently been busy tuning the performance and memory usage&nbsp;characteristics of .NET's upcoming release. Here, we learn about some of the performance and memory usage issues that Vance has focused on for .NET 4.5, which will ship in the next version of Visual Studio. If you're a .NET developer, you'll be pleased to learn about the great work that's going on in this area in addition to the development of a new memory diagnostics tool... Tune in. 1904 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Vance-Morrison-Performance-and-Memory-Usage-Improvements Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:57:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Vance-Morrison-Performance-and-Memory-Usage-Improvements Charles Charles 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NET-45-Vance-Morrison-Performance-and-Memory-Usage-Improvements/rss Performance Visual Studio Memory .NET Framework 4.5 CLR 4.5 .NET 4.5: David Kean and Mircea Trofin - Portable Libraries The Portable Class Library project enables you to write and build managed assemblies that work on more than one .NET Framework platform. You can create classes that contain code you wish to share across many projects, such as shared business logic, and then reference those classes from different types of projects.

Using the Portable Class Library project, you can build portable assemblies that work without modification on the .NET Framework, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, or Xbox 360 platforms. Without the Portable Class Library project, you must target a single platform and then manually rework the class library for other platforms. The Portable Class Library project supports a subset of assemblies from these platforms, and provides a Visual Studio template that makes it possible to build assemblies that run without modification on these platforms. [Source = MSDN]

The portable libraries project ships as part of Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview. You can build portable .NET class libraries by simply creating a Portable Class Library project (template provided for you) and choosing the platform targets. The IDE will then create the appropriate reference assemblies for you and you can then program as you normally would. 

Here, we meet Portable Libraries project developer David Kean and program manager Mircea Trofin to learn more. Whiteboarding included.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/NET-45-David-Kean-and-Marcea-Trofin-Portable-Libraries The Portable Class Library project enables you to write and build managed assemblies that work on more than one .NET Framework platform. You can create classes that contain code you wish to share across many projects, such as shared business logic, and then reference those classes from different types of projects. Using the Portable Class Library project, you can build portable assemblies that work without modification on the .NET Framework, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, or Xbox 360 platforms. Without the Portable Class Library project, you must target a single platform and then manually rework the class library for other platforms. The Portable Class Library project supports a subset of assemblies from these platforms, and provides a Visual Studio template that makes it possible to build assemblies that run without modification on these platforms. [Source = MSDN] The portable libraries project ships as part of Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview. You can&nbsp;build portable .NET class libraries by simply creating a Portable Class Library project (template provided for you)&nbsp;and&nbsp;choosing the platform targets. The IDE will then create the appropriate&nbsp;reference assemblies for you and you can then program as you normally would.&nbsp;Here, we meet Portable Libraries project developer David Kean and program manager Mircea Trofin to learn more. Whiteboarding included. 3040 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/NET-45-David-Kean-and-Marcea-Trofin-Portable-Libraries Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:16:11 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/NET-45-David-Kean-and-Marcea-Trofin-Portable-Libraries Charles Charles 12 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/NET-45-David-Kean-and-Marcea-Trofin-Portable-Libraries/RSS BCL .NET Framework 4.5 CLR 4.5: David Broman - Inside Re-JIT Re-JIT is a new capability in CLR 4.5 that allows modification and recompilation of method-level IL code during runtime without requiring a process restart: so, the JIT runs again without shutting down executing applications. This is a great feature for instrumentation and profiling tools developers.

Here, we learn all about Re-JIT from one of the developers who wrote it: David Broman. Again, Re-JIT enables recompiling a method at runtime without restarting the process. Very cool.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/CLR-45-David-Broman-Inside-Re-JIT Re-JIT is a new capability in CLR 4.5 that allows modification&nbsp;and recompilation&nbsp;of method-level IL code&nbsp;during runtime without requiring a process restart: so, the JIT runs again without shutting down executing applications. This is a great feature for instrumentation and profiling tools developers. Here, we learn all&nbsp;about Re-JIT from one of the developers who wrote it: David Broman. Again, Re-JIT enables recompiling a method at runtime without restarting the process. Very cool. 2208 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/CLR-45-David-Broman-Inside-Re-JIT Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:54:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/CLR-45-David-Broman-Inside-Re-JIT Charles Charles 25 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/CLR-45-David-Broman-Inside-Re-JIT/RSS JIT .NET Framework 4.5 CLR 4.5 CLR 4.5: Maoni Stephens - Server Background GC Maoni Stephens is the lead developer of the CLR's garbage collector (as you can imagine, she's a native(C/C++) developer). Here, she tells us about background GC for server-side .NET applications and services and also touches on improvements in large heap management, generally in the next release of .NET.

In the next release of .NET (4.5), managed server applications and services will reap the benefits of background collections. This is a feature the CLR team is excited about and for good reason. It means less pausing, better overall performance. In the 4.0 release, the client CLR supported background GC. You learned about that here (from Maoni). Moving this feature to the cloud (well, to the server-side) means more performance and less pausing for ASP.NET applications, for example. This is great news.

Tune in. Enjoy.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Maoni-Stephens-CLR-45-Server-Background-GC Maoni Stephens is the lead developer of the CLR's garbage collector (as you can imagine, she's a native(C/C&#43;&#43;) developer). Here, she tells us about background GC for server-side .NET applications and services and also touches on improvements in large heap management, generally in the next release of .NET. In the next release of .NET (4.5), managed server applications and services will reap the benefits of background collections. This is a feature the CLR team is excited about and for good reason. It means less pausing, better overall performance. In the 4.0 release, the client CLR supported background GC. You learned about that here (from Maoni).&nbsp;Moving this feature to the cloud (well, to the server-side) means more performance and less pausing for ASP.NET applications, for example. This is great news. Tune in. Enjoy. 1871 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Maoni-Stephens-CLR-45-Server-Background-GC Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:24:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Maoni-Stephens-CLR-45-Server-Background-GC Charles Charles 11 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Maoni-Stephens-CLR-45-Server-Background-GC/rss CLR GC .NET Framework 4.5 CLR 4.5