At its Build developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced a slew of new features for its .NET platform. With over 1.8 billion installs and 6 million professional developers, .NET — ...

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First a little background, I don't have VS.NET, or any of its components. But I do have the .NET 1.1 framework, the .NET SDK, and the Windows Platform SDK.<BR><BR>I was following the documentation on ...

Kasey Uhlenhuth of the Managed Languages Team opens up about lessons learned in Microsoft's efforts to develop the upcoming "Roslyn" compiler with help from the open source community. It all started ...

Microsoft made available this week for public testing a build of a new 64-bit .Net compiler built by the company's .Net runtime code-generation team. In a September 30 blog post on the .Net Framework ...

Microsoft's new, 64-bit Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler has reached the next milestone in its development, with the release of the second Community Technology Preview (CTP). CTP 2 of RyuJIT was announced ...

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Microsoft .Net Framework has matured a lot over the past few years. New features and enhancements have been introduced aplenty to optimize it and make it fast, secure, more stable, and high performant ...

A feature added to a compiler in Visual Studio .NET to improve the security of Visual C++ .NET itself introduces the type of vulnerability -- a buffer overflow -- that it was designed to protect ...

After Microsoft open-sourced Roslyn, the compiler technology became the basis for a slew of experimental compilers that allow everything from compiling C# to JavaScript, to providing an interactive ...