Entries tagged with clr - Channel 9

VIEWS Sample File

jbienz — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:32:31 GMT

This post includes the files for the Virtual Earth Mapping in Silverlight with VIEWS screencast.

Virtual Earth Mapping in Silverlight with VIEWS

jbienz — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:25:00 GMT

VIEWS (the Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight) provides a fully managed wrapper around Virtual Earth for Silverlight applications. VIEWS has its roots in Microsoft Research but now lives as an open source project on CodePlex. Join us for a quick lap around VIEWS and learn how you can add mapping to your applications without getting deep into JavaScript.

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John Lam and Martin Maly: Deep DLR

Charles — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:03:04 GMT

Dynamic languages are becoming more popular than ever. Static runtimes (static type system is baked into the machine) like the CLR do not natively support languages that have no requirement for explicit types. Implementing languages of this class on the CLR is a rather complicated and arduous task. Some very clever folks like Program Manager, RubyCLR creator and IronRuby team member John Lam and Senior Software Developer Martin Maly (creator of the LOLCode programming language implementation that runs on the DLR, but more importantly one of the devs who writes the DLR) are on the team that makes implementing dynamic languages that can run on top of the CLR not only possible but easier than one might expect. This is made possible with a new managed virtual machine called the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). The DLR runs on top of the CLR, but you can think of the DLR as it's own managed runtime (or virtual machine). For this interview, it is assumed that you have working knowledge of what the CLR does.

This interview focuses deeply on one core question: How does the DLR work. Of course, we talk about the history and future of the DLR, but primarily we find out about DLR nuts and bolts and architecure.

This interview is whiteboard heavy and compelling. It was really fun to chat with John and Martin and geek out on the DLR. It is a great technology with a very bright future.

Enjoy!

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Charles Nutter and Wayne Kelly: Making Ruby Run on Static Virtual Machines - JRuby(JVM) and Ruby.NET

Charles — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:28:13 GMT

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 project which aims to run Ruby "natively' on the JVM. Wayne Kelly is the lead developer on the now defunct Ruby.NET project (it's been merged into the IronRuby project so Wayne and team's great work has not gone with the wind...) which aimed to get Ruby to run on the CLR.

Both Charles and Wayne are challanged by the same technical hurdles: Running dynamic code in a statically-typed environment with no support for continuations. This is really challenging and is the primary reason that Microsoft created the DLR...

Here, we chat about that they're working on and what problems they face.

Another interesting discussion with brilliant people at Lang.NET 2008.

Enjoy.

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Patrick Dussud: Managing Garbage Collection

Charles — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:28:40 GMT

Where do objects go when they aren't used anymore (and how to know that they are no longer useful to the executing code that created them)? Might seem like a silly question to most developers, but that's what Technical Fellow Patrick Dussud has been dealing with for most of his career. His special area of focus is implementing garbage collection (GC) in various programming languages and systems (from JScript to the CLR).

In this episode, we discuss with Patrick how GC concepts and implementations have evolved over the years, how the GC in the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) might be different from others, and how GC improvements in the future may need to change to deal with advancements in both software and hardware systems.

Patrick also has some interesting things to say about clowns.

This episode of Behind the Code is hosted by Robert Hess, Director in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group. Although new to hosting Behind the Code, Robert is no stranger to hosting technical shows. For more than seven years, he hosted The .NET Show, a popular on-demand webcast that focused on providing architectural and programming information to developers around the world.

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Scott Guthrie: What's Coming for Mix, Part 2: Windows, Web, and RIA

Dan — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:52:46 GMT

In the second part of this two-part interview, Scott discusses how this year's Mix (http://visitmix.com/2008/) is going to be even larger than last year's, covering everything from Windows Presentation Foundation improvements to Web development frameworks including Dynamic Data and the MVC Framework, to dropping some hints about upcoming tooling support, and the major improvements in Silverlight 2.0.

You'll also hear Scott talk about the different needs of developers and designers with Expression, how he personally wrote the <asp:Calendar> control, the unique challenges in building controls and how XAML enables unmatched control composability.

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Code To Live: Jay Wren on the Boo Programming Language

joshholmes — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:31:25 GMT

Jay Wren, the self appointed evangelist for Boo, agreed to meet with Josh Holmes and talk with me about Boo the programming language.

JAOO 2007: Erik Meijer and Dave Thomas - Objects, Functions, Virtual Machines, IDEs and Other Fun St

Charles — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:05:38 GMT

JAOO 2007: Kresten Krab Thorup - JAOO What. How. Why.

Charles — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:02:25 GMT

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 of programmer life. What a great conference! For one thing, JAOO not about specifc products. It's not about one company's view of the world. It's not about one class of technologies or developer. It's not just about Java and LAMP or .NET and Windows.

JAOO is a unique conference and I love the way sessions are reviewed by attendees: after the session ends attendees can simply choose red, yellow or green pieces of paper and place them in a bucket. Red means the session was poor. Yellow means it was OK. Green means it was good. Attendees are also encouraged to write feedback on the piece of colored paper they choose. Simple, yet incredibly effective. Hey, PDC people. Pay attention.

JAOO is a truly interdisciplinary conference that attracts some of the smartest folks in the industry. Luckily, I got a chance to spend some time with a few of these programming pioneers and innovators and you will get to meet them over the coming days.

First up is Kresten Krab Thorup. For those of you who program in Java, you've undoubtedly heard of Kresten. Dr. Kresten Krab Thorup is Chief Architext and Co-founder and one of the Software Pilots of Trifork. Kresten in largely known for his work on integrating generics into Java. He is also one of the creators JAOO and each year, besides being the MC of the event, he can be spotted wandering around the conference in a bright green jacket engaging attendees and speakers.

I had a great time and JAOO 2007. My perspective has changed in terms of Us vs Them mentality as well gaining a new respect for both dynamic languages and functional programming. (You will be seeing some very interesting interviews with some of the pioneers of these two "hot" programming techniques).

Enjoy and a very big thank you to the wonderful JAOO team for inviting me to JAOO 2007 and providing unrestricted access to the event and speakers. I hope to be back next year!

Programming in the Age of Concurrency - Anders Hejlsberg and Joe Duffy: Concurrent Programming with

Charles — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:21:00 GMT

Microsoft is developing a number of technologies to simplify the expression of parallelism in code. An example of this work is Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework (PFX), a managed programming model for data parallelism, task parallelism, scheduling, and coordination on parallel hardware.

PFX makes it easier for developers to write programs that take advantage of parallel hardware (you've all heard of multi-core and what the future holds with many-core...), without having to deal with the complexities of threads and locks in today’s concurrent programming story. Of course, PFX is not a concurrent programming silver bullet. There is still a great deal of work left to do in the imperative programming world's approach to concurrency. PFX is an excellent start with a syntax that .NET developers can relate to and understand.

Here, Joe Duffy, Senior Software Engineer, and Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg sit down with me to discuss the basics and some of the details of the managed PFX library's architecture and implementation, whiteboard included.

For more information on specific technologies, check out the PLINQ and TPL articles in the October 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine.

High res video download file here.

Code to Live: Rob Howard and Richard Hale Shaw on Opening the .NET Source Code

joshholmes — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:40:55 GMT

In this show, Rob Howard and Richard Hale Shaw discuss their opinions on opening up the .NET Source code and how that was done.

Jack Gudenkauf - .Net 3.5 for ISVs

Sampy — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:07:51 GMT

Several weeks back James Vastbinder was able to coax Jack Gudenkauf into doing an interview on .NET 3.5 targeted at ISVs. Jack is an Architect on the Base Class Library team and tasked to work with Microsoft’s ISV Partners.

In this interview:

Jack talks about the BCL team and how they work within the larger Server and Tools business unit.
An inside view of the new Add-In Model in 3.5, (Its Jack's baby and he's rightly proud).
The Process ISV should mentally walk through when moving to managed code.
Tools and utilities used by the CLR team.

Technorati Tags: JackG, CLR, .NET3.5, BCL, Add-Ins, Jvast, Microsoft

Italia 9: Alessandro Catorcini e Affidabilita’ del .NET Framework

Charles — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:44:33 GMT

Passate le vacanze, ecco puntuale la seconda puntata di Italia 9!

Questa volta Vittorio e’ andato a trovare Alessandro Catorcini, un altro genovese che fa il senior program manager nel common language runtime team. Dopo la chiacchierata di rito sul come sia finito a lavorare in America per Microsoft, Alessandro parla a ruota libera del CLR: si va dal positioning di Silverlight all’hosting del common language runtime in applicazioni ad altissima affidabilita’ come SQL Server. Durante la discussione alessandro cita un paper sull’hosting che puo’ essere scaricato da qui; fa inoltre frequente menzione del blog CLR Inside Out, disponibilie da qui.

Come di consueto, Alessandro terra’ d’occhio i commenti al video: se avete domande non esitate a premere “Reply”.

Arrivederci alla prossima puntata!

And the English version, below:

Italia 9: Alessandro Catorcini and .NET Framework Reliability

Now that vacation time is gone, here there’s the second episode of Italia 9!

This time Vittorio went to visit Alessandro Catorcini, another guy from Genova who works as Senior Program manager in the common language runtime team.After the usual chat about how he ended up working for Microsft in theUS, Alessandro talks about the CLR: the discussion flows from Silverlight positioning to the aspects of hosting the CLR on highly reliable applications such as SQL Server. During the discussion Alessandro quotes a paper about CLR hosting, that can be downloaded from here; furthermore, he often mentions the blog CLR Inside Out (feed here).

As usual, Alessandro will keep an eye on the comments; if you have questions please do not heistate to press on the “Reply button.

See you in the next episode!

Overview of .NET Framework v3.5

Daniel Moth — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:59:00 GMT

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth :)

Introduction: There is much confusion about what .NET Framework 3.5 is and how it relates to v3.0 and v2.0. In this video I try to explain that and also show you the entire list of the new assemblies with a sentence or two on what each one contains and where they reside. On the way, I share how I personally explore new assemblies in case it is useful to anyone. My relevant blog posts to look at are here and here.

Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a streaming file). If you'd prefer to download the wmv packaged in a zip file, you may do so here.

Patrick Dussud: Garbage Collection - Past, Present and Future

Charles — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:05:54 GMT

I finally got a chance to sit down and talk to Patrick Dussud, one of the CLR founders and chief architect of the .NET Garbage Collector, or GC, as developers call it. I wanted to learn about what a GC is, how it works, why it does what it does, how it will evolve, Patrick's history in the industry, and, of course, get Silverlight screencasts that go deep. Jon Udell piles on with podcast with Jon Lam trebuchet.

This is one of those videos.

Scott and I barged in on Vance Morrison, an architect on the .NET Runtime team, and spent some quality time with him assaulting a wall (we won - the wall didn't even put up a fight) and then talking about Vance's job, which turns out to be quite the challenge.

Vance didn't have much time, so Scott and I were very thankful for the few minutes we got, but Scott was able to dig right down to the interesting stuff quickly. Scott's good at that :)

There are more HanselMinutes on 9 videos coming. It seems people dig these things, so we're going to release a few more from the first session, and then put together another set, most likely at Mix.

Thanks again to Scott Hanselman for doing this, and to Carl Franklin for letting us use the "HanselMinutes" name.

Rico Mariani: Writing better, faster code

Charles — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:03:41 GMT

For eighteen years at Microsoft, Rico Mariani’s contagious enthusiasm for technology has inspired countless others to write better and faster code. Most people inside Microsoft know this software architect from his frequent postings on the internal performance tuning alias, and other people know him by reading his blog on MSDN. He often says that being an architect is a teaching gig and his passion for sharing knowledge has established him as an industry expert. Additionally, what you might not know is Rico is responsible for many of the cool features and tools that make programming easier like value tips.

See more Rico on C9
In this video, Scott replyed to the questions. I put all questions as superimposed text in Japanese and English in the video.

We gathered the questions from Japanese users and developers on the following web site.
https://www.microsoft.com/japan/MSDN/community/askexperts/default.aspx

Also, we published the same video with Japanese subtitles using SAMI technlogy onto the following URL.

http://www.microsoft.com/japan/seminar/msdn/community/askexperts/ScottG/play.aspx

The video length is 25 min. 08 sec.

このビデオは、"Ask The Experts!"の企画でデベロッパーオーディエンスマーケティングチームと一緒に作成したものです。Webで公募した質問から厳選し、マイクロソフトの担当者に問い合わせるというものです。
このビデオでは、スコット　ガスリーさんが、寄せられた質問に回答しています。
質問の内容はビデオ中に文字で表示されます。
日本語字幕つきのビデオは、次のアドレスでご覧いただけます。

http://www.microsoft.com/japan/seminar/msdn/community/askexperts/ScottG/play.aspx
なお、SAMI技術を利用して字幕を表示しています。
25分8秒のビデオです。

Anders Hejlsberg - Lang.Net 2006 Compiler Symposium

Michael Lehman — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:32:02 GMT

This screencast is a recording of the presentation that Anders Hejlsberg gave at the recently completed Lang.Net 2006 Compiler Symposium.

Additional details about the symposium, speakers and presentations is available at http://www.langnetsymposium.com

Forth to .NET Compiler

Sampy — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:52:17 GMT

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 result.

Dr. Sneath interviews him to find out a little more about how a single Romanian developer became one of the first people to extend .NET to new programming languages. Apologies that the video is so shaky: it wasn’t until afterwards that we discovered that the image stabilization feature was disabled. Download Forth.NET from Valer’s website (http://www.dataman.ro/dforth/index.html).

Jason Zander on the WinFX to .NET FX 3.0 rename

Duncanma — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:39:18 GMT

Ok, just when we all had the WinFX name firmly stuck in our heads, they went and changed it! Why? What does this mean for you? What folders will you end up with in your Microsoft .NET directory? All these answers and more in this interview Duncan did with Jason Zander from the .NET Framework team.

IT Heroes Episode I: Bill Zack discusses SQL 2005

mjmurphy — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 05:00:00 GMT

IT Heroes! Stories from the Trenches

Today marks one of the most anticipated product launches in Microsoft history. Today we launch SQL 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 and revolutionize the database world and the developer world.

In keeping with that theme here is a 20 minute interview with Bill Zack, one of the co-authors of Programming SQL 2005 due out from MS Press early 2006. We spend the first five minutes discussing Bill's many other projects including his software architects User Group in Manhattan and get into a discussion of SQL 2005 at about the 4:45 mark. Update and point of clarification: This interview was recorded about 45 days prior to launch and includes mention of database mirroring. This feature, though included in SQL 2005 RTM, is not currently supported by Microsoft Product Support Services. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;907741 .

This interview is the first (or at least the first published) in a new podcast series: IT Heroes: Stories from the Trenches, these are the real stories of men and women in IT making a difference everyday. We talk with authors, innovators and implementers about emerging technologies, troubleshooting and remediation of common infrastructure issues and charitable contributions in the community. We seek to educate and provide a forum for open discussion of the many uses for and specific ways in which people are everyday exploiting technology to create opportunities for themselves and others.

Though I am hosting the show getting it together was a real team effort. I want to particularly thank Keith Combs, without whom this interview would still be sitting on a file server. Also, Joe Stagner, Matt Hester, Steve Alley and Stacey Copeland for their insight and support.

New episodes will posted here at my blog each Monday before noon EST. I hope you'll join us.

Stream the Bill Zack Interview now!

Originally posted Monday, November 07, 2005 11:36 AM by MJMurphy_TechNet with 5 Comments [Edit] at http://blogs.technet.com/mjmurphy [6]

Jay Schmelzer - Working on the VB Core Team

scobleizer — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:24:03 GMT

Ken Levy took his camcorder over to see Jay Schmelzer, lead program manager on the Visual Basic.net team. They have a nice chat about what the VB team has been up to lately.