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Heap Views in Visual Studio

May 06, 2020
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So I love the idea that developers should focus on the abstraction layer that makes them productive and happy, even if ...

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Build 2020 is Happening!

May 01, 2020
3 min read

This year Build is going to be free and open to everyone! It will be 48 hours straight of developer content and live ...

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Finalization Queue Tips

April 24, 2020
4 min read

I have talked about general memory management in .NET a whole bunch on this blog but I have been kicking around some ...

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Decompilation improvements for Visual Studio

April 14, 2020
2 min read

When we released our decompilation scenario with Visual Studio 16.5 it served as the perfect platform to unlock more ...

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COVID19 Contact Tracing

April 11, 2020
3 min read

Apple and Google are partnering to build a new contact tracing system into both Android and iOS, in an effort to help ...

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ReJIT on Attach

April 01, 2020
2 min read

A really useful feature of the CLR is that it allows a user to request a new JIT (aka 'reJIT'). This is really ...

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Suppressing Disassembly

March 24, 2020
2 min read

The great majority of folks loved the new decompilation features in Visual Studio 16.5, but that did not stop me having ...

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A New Reality

March 22, 2020
2 min read

I have been trying to figure out for days what I might say on this blog about this catastrophic interruption to our ...

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Azure Lets Encrypt - DashboardConnectionString field is required

March 17, 2020
2 min read

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. It is a service ...

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