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Announcing TraceEvent – Monitoring and Diagnostics for the Cloud

August 15, 2013 Aug 15, 2013 08/15/13
Immo Landwerth
In this post, Vance Morrison, software developer on the .NET Runtime team, will talk about the TraceEvent NuGet library we just shipped. -- Immo I am happy to report that we have just released the TraceEvent library on (prelease) NuGet. This library is an important part of the .NET, end-to-end, cloud scale diagnostics and monitoring story. It...

Announcing the EventSource NuGet Package – Write to the Windows Event Log

August 9, 2013 Aug 9, 2013 08/9/13
.NET Team
We are announcing the EventSource NuGet package, which enables fast app tracing to the Windows Event Log, including in production. This post was written by Cosmin Radu, a software developer on the .NET Runtime team We know that you want to build high-quality software. That can be a challenging task if your desktop or web app interacts ...

Got a need for speed? .NET apps start faster.

August 6, 2013 Aug 6, 2013 08/6/13
.NET Team
This post was written by Rich Lander, who works as a Program Manager on the .NET Framework. He worked on AutoNGEN for Windows 8. This post focuses on how technologies such as Native Image Generator (NGEN), the .NET Framework Optimization Service (mscorsvw), AutoNGEN, and compilation in the cloud have improved the startup performance of .NET ...

Got a need for speed? .NET apps start faster.

August 6, 2013 Aug 6, 2013 08/6/13
.NET Team
This post was written by Rich Lander, who works as a Program Manager on the .NET Framework. He worked on AutoNGEN for Windows 8. This post focuses on how technologies such as Native Image Generator (NGEN), the .NET Framework Optimization Service (mscorsvw), AutoNGEN, and compilation in the cloud have improved the startup performance of .NET ...

Real Scenario: folder deployment scenarios with MSDeploy

January 9, 2013 Jan 9, 2013 01/9/13
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
Hi everyone Sayed here. I recently had a customer, Johan, contact me to help with some challenges regarding deployment automation. He had some very specific requirements, but he was able to automate the entire process. He has been kind enough to agree to write up his experience to share with everyone. His story is below. If you have any ...

.NET Framework 4.5 – Off to a great start

October 17, 2012 Oct 17, 2012 10/17/12
Brandon Bray
The .NET Framework just passed 3 million downloads. During this time, we’ve been monitoring your experience, paying attention to both telemetry and social traffic. One of the first things I do every morning is read through all the Twitter traffic about .NET. Many others on the .NET team do the same. If you’ve raised an issue about .NET ...

Improvements in .NET Framework Setup for Developers, IT Pros, and Users

October 12, 2012 Oct 12, 2012 10/12/12
Brandon Bray
The only experience most Microsoft customers have with the .NET Framework is the deployment and installation experience, which is why we spend so much time analyzing opportunities to improve it. For .NET 4.5, our goal was to build a product that was equivalent to a service pack with additional features. Our team studied how other products ...

Optimizing the .NET Framework Deployment Experience for Users and Developers

March 7, 2012 Mar 7, 2012 03/7/12
Brandon Bray
Rapid development has been one of the enduring themes behind the design of the .NET Framework. We know that authoring application installers is particularly difficult and could be improved. The following post is by Richard Lander from the program management team on the Common Language Runtime. He explains our motivations for introducing a ...

Compatibility of .NET Framework 4.5

September 26, 2011 Sep 26, 2011 09/26/11
Brandon Bray
Fundamentals were a big part of our focus while building .NET 4.5. We divided fundamentals into seven areas called “tenets”. One of these tenets is compatibility. Today’s post is by Manish Agnihotri, a program manager who is driving compatibility across the .NET Framework. -- Brandon Editor's update: we've added more ...