CLR Inside Out: Best Practices For Managed And Native Code Interoperability

Glenn Block explains how the Managed Extensibility Framework, a new library coming in .NET Framework 4.0, tackles the longstanding issue of building applications and components that can be reused and extended by others. Learn how to build apps that can use new functionality introduced by developers, framework authors and third-party extenders.Glenn BlockMSDN Magazine February 2010

Learn about enhanced TimeSpan formatting and parsing features coming in the .NET Framework 4, and some helpful tips for working with TimeSpan values.Ron PetrushaMSDN Magazine February 2010

Now that you've identified technical debt in your code base, let's turn our attention to some specific tactics that will help you pay back that debt.David LaribeeMSDN Magazine January 2010

Creating and maintaining a unit test suite for legacy code can be a challenge. Pex automatically produces a small test suite with high code and assertion coverage.Nikhil SachdevaMSDN Magazine December 2009

Every codebase contains some measure of technical debt - code that is maddeningly hard to test and maintain. We outline some ideas for identifying and dealing with the high-interest debt in your code.David LaribeeMSDN Magazine December 2009

The new .NET Framework 4.0 maintains backward compatibility while allowing core innovations by using a new feature called In-Process Side-by-Side. Learn about how it works and some problems it didn't solve.Luiz Fernando Santos, Jesse KaplanMSDN Magazine December 2009

This article is an overview of digital signature practices and user considerations necessary to write applications in compliance with ISO/IEC 15408 Common Criteria security. Signing categories are described, including those that are a potential risk to the implied trust association that goes with a digital signature.Jack DavisMSDN Magazine November 2009

The .NET Framework 4 introduces many updates to the .NET security model that make it much easier to host, secure and provide services to partially trusted code. This article dives into the many features and benefits of the .NET security model.Andrew DaiMSDN Magazine November 2009

This article discusses how to write a library or framework that uses the Dependency Injection pattern and how the change in focus affects the usage of the pattern.Chris TavaresMSDN Magazine November 2009

In this article, the authors complete the picture for Garbage Collected (GC) heap related memory issues by providing step-by-step instructions on using the CLR Profiler for .NET GC heap memory investigations.Subramanian Ramaswamy, Vance MorrisonMSDN Magazine October 2009