BCL

Immutable Collections are a new set of immutable types for .NET. We covered the high level aspects of this new technology a few months back when Erik Meijer interrogated (in his friendly way) the PM of the project, Immo Landwerth, and the lead developer, Andrew Arnott. Since this…

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…

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…

You recently learned about Erik Meijer's latest innovation, Rx, here on Channel 9. Clearly, judging by the views and comments on that post, it piqued your interest and curiosity. Wes Dyer, a rock star developer on Erik's team of rock stars, implemented a great deal of Rx and helped to…

Much of what you can do with .NET, from a compositional perspective, is enabled by the vast functionality housed in .NET's huge base class libraries (in fact, the BCL is what provides all the incredibly default(part of the .NET framework) useful objects you use to paint your binary vision).…