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CLR-Related PDC 2009 Sessions
If you’re at PDC this year and are reading the CLR Team’s blog, there are a few sessions that might be of interest to you.   ·         Future of Garbage... more
Wednesday, Nov 18 by CLRTeam
How to Make the Most of Your .NET Server Code
One of our team’s field engineers recently sent a link to a Channel 9 video: Steve Michelotti of e.magination on High Performance Web Solutions. This company built a 64-bit web server that handles ove... more
Friday, Nov 13 by CLRTeam
CLR Inside Out - Exploring the .NET Framework 4 Security Model
  The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN Magazine is now available on line.  This month we have an article from Andrew Dai on Exploring the .NET Frame... more
Tuesday, Nov 10 by CLRTeam

CLR Inside Out

CLR Inside Out: Exploring the .NET Framework 4 Security Model
The .NET Framework 4 introduces many updates to the .NET security model that make it much easier to host, secure and provide services to partially tru... more
Monday, Nov 16
CLR Inside Out: Profiling the .NET Garbage-Collected Heap
In this article, the authors complete the picture for Garbage Collected (GC) heap related memory issues by providing step-by-step instructions on usin... more
Monday, Oct 12
CLR Inside Out: What’s New in the .NET Framework 4 Base Class Library
Just about everyone who uses Microsoft .NET uses the Base Class Libraries (BCL).When we make the BCL better, almost every managed developer benefits.... more
Monday, Sep 14
CLR Inside Out: Code Contracts
This article will share some of the best practices that the Base Class Libraries (BCL) team devised as they added the code contract libraries and star... more
Friday, Jul 24
CLR Inside Out: Building Tuple
In this column, the author lays out some guiding principles that you should follow when working with the ASP.NET MVC framework.Matt EllisMSDN Magazine... more
Thursday, Jun 18

CLR Videos

.NET Framework++: Moving Forward and Staying Compatible with the Past
You've recently learned a good deal about the next version of the CLR here on Channel 9. One of the things that is top of mind for engineers who creat... more
Wednesday, Jun 10 by Charles
Ian Carmichael: The History and Future of the CLR
Ian Carmichael has been working on the CLR team since before Microsoft came up with the .NET branding for our managed platform and the virtual machine... more
Tuesday, Jun 9 by Charles
Raja Krishnaswamy and Vance Morrison: CLR 4 - Inside Type Equivalence
You recently learned about CLR 4's support for type equivalence in a conversation right here on C9 with Raja Krishnaswamy and Jesse Kaplan. The idea o... more
Friday, Jun 5 by Charles
Rick Byers and Simon Hall: CLR 4 - Side-by-Side In-Process - What. How. Why.
CLR hosting has always been a hot topic. Consider the case of Windows Shell Extensions and the inability to load more than one CLR version per process... more
Wednesday, Jun 3 by Charles
Erika Parsons and Eric Eilebrecht : CLR 4 - Inside the Thread Pool
General purpose thread pools are more complicated to get right than you may think. In CLR 4 (the next version of the VM that powers .NET), the thread... more
Monday, Jun 1 by Charles

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Channel 9 Videos for .NET FrameworkChannel 9 Videos

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CLR SecurityCLR Security

Find projects that extend the security APIs shipped with the .NET framework to provide additional functionality.

CLR InteropCLR Interop

Find tools and samples that enhance your interop development experience.

Base Class LibrariesBase Class Libraries

BCL provides the fundamental building blocks for any application you develop with .NET.

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