Got back from Build conference. Since I expect many people will ask me "So, what's new?" and since the answer is rather complex, I figured I should try to write a post about it, so here goes…

Miguel de Icaza, of Mono fame, walks us through WinRT and what it means for .Net programmers.

MSDN article on what's new in .Net 4.5

Eric Lippert talks about what a Type in .Net really is.

Eric Lippert brings us part two of his series on what is is to be a Type in .Net.

First came IronPython, then IronRuby, and now Clojure has been ported to run on the CLR. A short intro/comparison to C# is available here: http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2011/08/15/clojure-and-the-clr.aspx

This is a code snippet which i got from Jeffrey Richters blog. This code offers a way to raise notification event when a garbage collection occurs on Generation 0 or Generation 2 object Here is the code for the class:

We all know that the way .net handles a string is not optimal and uses up lot of memory, thought there are reason to do like this. But if we have more string objects or comparison inside our assembly then in this case surely it is going to be a performance hit. But here what really happens is fram...

Fantastic article on memory management in .NET. This is a must read. Also includes a webinar and pdf on the subject, do yourself a favor and save a copy of this somewhere safe.

SPT is a WinDBG extension for debugging .NET applications. Now available for x86 debugging.

A new WinDBG extension containing a lot of useful features for debugging .NET 4 applications.

The official answer is you can’t. In this post I show how you can get it done.

Because I blogged about anonymous types last month, I thought following extension method would also make an interesting post.

Convenient tables that show character classifications according to the Char methods such as IsControl, IsWhiteSpace, etc.