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Announcing Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.0

As you can see from Soma's blog on Monday we released Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.0. Of course...

Author: DinoV Date: 08/31/2011

IronPython 2.6 Released!

I've very happy to announced that we've officially released IronPython 2.6! This is a great release...

Author: DinoV Date: 12/11/2009

World's Worst Paint Program

I've uploaded the World's Worst Paint Program, as seen in my PDC talk, to IronPython's CodePlex...

Author: DinoV Date: 11/17/2009

Microsoft.Dynamic - Getting Started w/ a Language

Want to create a language on top of the DLR? Well the first thing you need to do is plug into the...

Author: DinoV Date: 11/17/2009

Two IronPython releases in 1 week

This was a good week for IronPython - we've released not one but two new versions! The first release...

Author: DinoV Date: 07/23/2009

On Performance

Ahh, performance… It’s so much fun! It’s easy to measure and as you work on it you can see immediate...

Author: DinoV Date: 05/22/2009

A Simple DLR Binder

A lot of people find it a little confusing to write their first binder to consume dynamic objects...

Author: DinoV Date: 01/21/2009

IronPython, MS SQL, and PEP 249

Over the past week and a half I've spent a little bit of time getting Django 0.96.1 running on...

Author: DinoV Date: 03/17/2008

New opportunities...

After a little over 4 years it’s time for me to go and explore new opportunities… It's awesome to...

Author: DinoV Date: 11/17/2005

Fiber mode is gone...

Well, now that our RTM and RC-esque builds are starting to make it out into the wild it seems like a...

Author: DinoV Date: 09/15/2005

Cooperative Fiber Mode Sample - Day 11

Last week we went over the Abort and RudeAbort APIs. This week we’ll go over Fiber.Exit. This API...

Author: DinoV Date: 10/11/2004

Cooperative Fiber Mode Sample - Day 10

In this article we’re going to look at the implementation of Abort and RudeAbort. In the last...

Author: DinoV Date: 09/30/2004

Cooperative Fiber Mode Sample - Day 9

The managed Fiber class exists in its own directory in the SDK sample appropriately called Fiber....

Author: DinoV Date: 09/16/2004

Cooperative Fiber Mode Sample - Day 8

It seems like a good time to take a breather and look at what we have going on so far. First, we’ve...

Author: DinoV Date: 09/09/2004

Cooperative Fiber Mode Sample - Day 7

At this point we’ve covered nearly all the major components of the unmanaged host. The one remaining...

Author: DinoV Date: 09/07/2004

Cooperative Fiber Mode Sample - Day 6

The synchronization primitives are handled off to the runtime by the IHostSyncManager interface....

Author: DinoV Date: 09/03/2004

Cooperative Fiber Mode Sample - Day 5

Last time we successfully created a task and started it running. That’s an accomplishment, but there...

Author: DinoV Date: 08/31/2004

Cooperative Fiber Mode Sample - Day 4

Last time we left off with the CLR calling into the host to create a task. So far everything’s been...

Author: DinoV Date: 08/26/2004

Cooperative Fiber Mode Sample - Day 3

When I last left off we went over the host control. The host control hands off our task and...

Author: DinoV Date: 08/23/2004

Cooperative Fiber Mode Sample - Day 2

In the last blog entry I went over how we start the runtime. Once it was loaded we were running...

Author: DinoV Date: 08/18/2004

Cooperative Fiber Mode Sample - Day 1

Well it’s been a while since I’ve blogged… There’ve been a few distractions, starting with Beta 1,...

Author: DinoV Date: 08/16/2004

Testing Fiber Mode

Testing Fiber Mode Fiber mode is one of the interesting new features we’ve done in hosting. Fiber...

Author: DinoV Date: 05/26/2004

.NET Trivia

Here’s a fun piece of .NET trivia involving thread aborts and exception handling. What does...

Author: DinoV Date: 05/13/2004

Inaugural Blog

Welcome to my blog. Yes, that’s right; you’re reading YAIB (Yet another Inaugural Blog). So, who am...

Author: DinoV Date: 05/06/2004