.NET Framework

ASP.NET's latest MVC view engine, "Razor," is optimized for HTML generation using a code-focused templating approach. Razor minimizes the number of characters and keystrokes required in a file, and enables a fast, fluid coding workflow. Unlike most template syntaxes, you do not need to…

You recently learned about CLR 4's support for type equivalence in a conversation right here on C9 with Raja Krishnaswamy and Jesse Kaplan. The idea of type equivalence and its potential usefulness beyond simplifying and de-bloating COM interop that employs Interop Assemblies (CLR 4's No-PIA…

Parallel Extensions simplifies development by providing library-based support for introducing concurrency into applications written with any .NET language, including C# and Visual Basic. It includes the Task Parallel Library (TPL), which provides imperative data and task parallelism; Parallel…

Parallel Computing Platform team members Stephen Toub, Rick Molloy, Don McCrady and Dana Groff join me for a chat about the differences and similarities in their conceptual approach to designing and building concurrent programming abstractions targeting .NET developers and native…

In this video, Nikolai Tillmann walks us through pexforfun.com, a website where you can write small C#, VB, or F# programs and explore them directly from your browser by using Pex. Additionally, Pex also makes it possible to play coding duels, in which users compete to discover a…

InnerWorkings is an independent software company whose mission is to help developers learn to write better code faster on the .NET framework. Developers learn by solving real coding challenges and getting instant feedback on their solutions in Visual Studio.  An online platform supports the…

Developers Thomas Lai and David Broman join Program Manager Jon Langdon to share with us some of the new debugging and profiling enhancements in CLR 4. They've done a lot work in the upcoming release and besides evolving debugging and profilining capabilities and semantics (APIs),…

You've recently learned a good deal about the next version of the CLR here on Channel 9. One of the things that is top of mind for engineers who create and consume the .NET framework (CLR + BCL) is compatibility with previous versions. In fact, much like security, compatibility is…

Ian Carmichael has been working on the CLR team since before Microsoft came up with the .NET branding for our managed platform and the virtual machine that powers it all, the Common Language Runtime. Well, we're getting close to the third major release of the CLR, CLR 4 (V3 was really a…

Part 3 of 3. Check out Part1 & Part2 in WMV (High).CRM SDK 4.0.12 that was released as part of the May 2010 Service Update includes some wonderful tools to simplify CRM development. One of the great benefits with this new SDK is the ability to switch your application from CRM…