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Parallel Computing with .NET
8 December 2007 in Microsoft & Programming | Comments (0)

I’ve now spoke several times about Microsoft parallel computing approach (programming model for data and task parallelism), and if didn’t notice yet, you can now download the December 2007 CTP (first make sure you have the RTM version of the .NET 3.5 runtime).

You also can check out a few videos about this.

By the way, if you’re interested in this subject, check the ‘Manycore Shift‘ paper from Microsoft.

Visual Studio 2008 is out!
19 November 2007 in Microsoft | Comments (0)

If you have an MSDN subscription you already know VS2008 (Orcas) has been released this morning. If you want the Express edition, get it from the Express page.

Every Windows Sound and Boot logo
1 November 2007 in Fun & Microsoft | Comments (1)

If you haven’t seen it already, here’s a YouTube video that shows all the startup screens and sounds for Windows, from version 1.0 up to the present.

This only shows how late Microsoft started hiring sound designers…

Programming in the Age of Concurrency
22 October 2007 in Microsoft & Programming | Comments (1)

I spoke recently about the Parallel FX (PFX) extension for .NET, and not much happen in this subject until now. Channel9 has an interview with Anders Hejlsberg and Joe Duffy about this.

The interview displays some details on this new technology, from the basics to a more detailed information about the current architecture and implementation.

Although I think a lot of work still needs to be made, I’m sure this will be an awesome start point for concurrent programming in the .NET framework.

.NET Framework source code to be released
3 October 2007 in Microsoft & Software | Comments (0)

I still can’t believe in this news. Apparently Microsoft will be releasing the base class libraries under the Microsoft Reference License, and the source code will be available for download by anyone.

“We’ll begin by offering the source code (with source file comments included) for the .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.IO, System.Collections, System.Configuration, System.Threading, System.Net, System.Security, System.Runtime, System.Text, etc), ASP.NET (System.Web), Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms), ADO.NET (System.Data), XML (System.Xml), and WPF (System.Windows).  We’ll then be adding more libraries in the months ahead (including WCF, Workflow, and LINQ).  The source code will be released under the Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL)“

This will allow even greater integrated debugging support. VS 2008 will even support to automatically retrieve the appropriate .NET Framework source files on demand from Microsoft.

You can get more information on Scott Guthrie blog and this Hanselminutes podcast.

With this move, I’m sure the .NET framework can begin to appeal those who believe the framework its to close to work with. I can’t wait to peek under the hood of WPF and LINQ code.

Even so, I still hope Microsoft can offer in the near future a real open-source framework with third party patches…