CLR

At Lang.NET 2008, I caught up with two dynamic languages afficianados who have been working on a similar (and really hard)problem over the years: getting Ruby (a dynamic language) to run on a static virtual machine (JVM and CLR, respectived). Charles Nutter is a lead developer on the JRuby…

I recently got the chance to attend JAOO in Aarhus, Denmark. Besids learning a great amount about various approaches to solving hard problems that we all face as programmers (regardless of the stack we spend most of our time developing on), I got to meet so many interesting peoplefrom all walks of…

I recently got the chance to attend JAOO in Aarhus, Denmark. Besids learning a great amount about various approaches to solving hard problems that we all face as programmers (regardless of the stack we spend most of our time developing on), I got to meet so many interesting people from all  walks…

Rico Mariani, architect on the .NET Common Language Runtime Team, knows a bit about making .NET perform. So, what about .NET? Can it perform? What are the tricks on making your apps run fast? Rico knows and shares his insights.

Performance is something we all care about a lot. So we asked Brad Abrams "when are we going to see better performance in .NET?" and "what's missing from .NET and WinFX (the managed APIs in Longhorn)?"

Lead Program Manager Brad Abrams, who works on the CLR team, talks about what his day is like. The CLR (Common Language Runtime) is what .NET applications run on and Brad's working with both the Longhorn teams and Whidbey teams to get new versions of the CLR implemented for both of those teams.…

"We built for the future," Anders says. It wasn't an easy road that brought us to .NET, though. Listen in as Anders explains how .NET was born (and how it differs from COM).

.NET's garbage collector has a tough job. It manages your memory usage, always looking to "collect" unused memory and give it back to the system. Obviously this is a pretty important function of the .NET system. Since Christopher is one of the few people who knows how the garbage…

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…

"Show us the architecture of .NET on the whiteboard," is what we asked Jason Zander and that started out an interesting discussion of what .NET is. That led into a discussion of .NET's garbage collector and determinalistic finalization that developers will find interesting (Charles…