.NET Framework

The Metro interface has the potential to change how a lot of people use computers. You've started seeing it in the Windows Phone. More if you have downloaded the Windows 8 consumer preview. In this session, we will demonstrate how the power exposed by Metro (through live tiles, push…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:[0:41] Announcing MSDN Profile Integration (Geoffrey, karstenj, Mike Sampson) [1:26] .NET 4.5 Improvements for Cloud and Server Applications (Soma Somasegar) [2:27] My Favorite Features: Improved…

Today's Hardware Friday is a triple dose of .NET Micro Framework and .NET Gadgeteer getting started, into, kicked off, hooked, what are they and getting started posts.From a slide deck and great link round-up my Pete Brown, to watching him geek out for an hour to a getting started with FEZ Hydra…

Today's project is a kind that I don't usually highlight, one that relies on a commercial third party SDK, but I really appreciated the author's intent and goals with it. I just can't get enough of people taking their hard learned lessons, packaging them up and then sharing them freely…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including:[0:28] Visual Studio 11 User Interface Updates Coming in RC (Monty Hammontree) [2:05] Announcing Portable Library Tools 2 Beta for Visual Studio 2010 [Mircea] (BCL Team) [3:57] Check out Hilo for…

Some exceptions don't cause your application to crash.  Some do.  Either way, developers should work to rid their applications of exceptions for both stability and performance reasons.  Special guest Mario Hewardt joins us as we discuss how to detect the presence of these exceptions,…

If you've spent any time developing applications, it's likely you've encountered a high cpu hang at some point.  Troubleshooting this problem in the dev environment is one thing, but how do Premier Field Engineers troubleshoot this problem in a customer's production environment when Visual…

"I got my first dump.  Now where do I begin?"I get this question a lot from customers and fellow Premier Field Engineers who are learning how to debug post-mortem dump files of problematic .NET applications.  In Part 4 of our series, we cover some of the more common commands (not…

Ever try to load SOS/psscor into your debugging session and get a "Failed to load data access dll" error?  It's not uncommon, especially when you first start debugging .NET applications.  Join us for a brief introduction to Windbg before we discuss the most common causes for this…

Performance Monitor is oftentimes an overlooked tool when troubleshooting application issues.  But in the production environment, it can be invaluable to helping you determine just what kind of application issue you have.  Perfmon has a lot to offer, so we dedicate Part 2 of this series to…