CLR

"It is so much more powerful to quote a customer," Brad Abrams says. Hear how feedback from blogs and forums like those on Channel9 is changing product design decisions at Microsoft, especially on the CLR team (Brad's a lead program manager on the CLR team).

Hear the roar! Oh, that's just the CLR team's lab where they are testing 64-bit versions of the .NET common language runtime. But, first, we drop into Adam Nathan's office where he shows us the pinvoke.net Web site. That concludes our tour of the CLR team, but next week we'll sit down with Jason…

Christopher Brumme is an architect on .NET's Common Language Runtime, aka CLR, team. His weblog is famous for 11,000 word highly technical posts. That makes sense. The .NET CLR is at the center of Microsoft's future platform strategy. He tells us he'll get to his weblog again sometime, but he's…

Eric Lippert takes on the belief that .NET code doesn't perform as well as code written with other methodologies.

Charles Torre, one of the developers who works on Channel 9's code, sat down with Jason Zander, Product Unit Manager of the .NET Common Language Runtime team. Here's the first part of that interview."Our team is a cross between compiler geeks and kernel geeks," Zander says in response to…

As a compact, stack-based programming language, Forth was popular in the 1980s as a lower-level alternative to BASIC for microcomputers and is still used in many commercial environments. When Valer Bocan discovered .NET in 2001, he decided to try writing his first compiler, and Forth.NET was the…

.NET compatibility is a big issue. Will your 2.0 apps work on 1.1 runtimes? Or, will your 1.1 apps work on the new 2.0 runtimes? What about apps hosted inside Outlook? Jesse Kaplan, program manager on the .NET CLR team, covers all these application compatibility issues and more. At about…

Recently the CLR team had a "Compiler Lab" which is where they meet with customers over in building 20 on Microsoft's main campus in Redmond, WA. Jeff Sandquist and Charles Torre took their camcorder out for a dinnertime meeting with compiler geeks from Microsoft and other…

Here's the final part of the tour of the .NET CLR BCL team. Check out the books that Brian Grunkemeyer likes reading. If you missed them, the rest of the tour is here: Part I Part II

In this part, you'll jump right into a meeting with Brad Abrams and Joe Duffy. You can see how they think through an issue with the .NET CLR's design.