CLR 4

Orleans is a Microsoft Research (MSR) project and managed (.NET) software framework for building client + cloud applications. As outlined in the recently released paper on the topic: Orleans defines an actor-like model of isolated grains that communicate through asynchronous messages and…

ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle of Microsoft and MVP Stuart Celarier explore the new languages features in C#. It's a Whirlwind Tour of the important language features of C# 4. Stuart describes each major feature and why it is useful. But doesn't get into best practices nor suggested…

Senior SDE Shawn Farkas digs into the new security model in CLR 4. Gone are the days of head scratching complexity when it comes to reasoning about security in the managed world. The main goal for CLR 4 security was simplicity, in design and implementation for consumers (developers) of both…

Surupa Biswas is a Program Manager on the CLR team working on NGen, CLR's Native Image Generator. The Native Image Generator (ngen.exe) creates native images, which are files containing compiled processor-specific machine code, and installs them into the native image cache on the local…

Principal Architect Raja Krishnaswamy, Program Manager Jesse Kaplan and team have created a new way to streamline and simplfiy PIA-based COM Interop: rather than including an entire PIA (Primary Interop Assembly) in your application to utilize the functionality of a few of its member…

In this episode of 10-4, Jason Olson takes a quick dive into CLR 4. Specifically, we dive into security improvements in CLR 4, especially around the concept of the sandboxing of a host and add-ins. For more information on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4, make sure to download…