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 — ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

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 ...

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 ...

At its Build 2014 conference today, Microsoft announced it is open sourcing its .NET compiler platform “Roslyn” – and then did exactly that, live on stage. Microsoft’s Anders Hejlsberg hit the button ...

Does it make sense to build something from scratch when there’s a perfectly good solution available — especially if it’s open source? Once upon a time, Microsoft’s default was to build its own rather ...