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SafeHandles: the best V2.0 feature of the .NET Framework [Ravi Krishnaswamy]

Rather than giving a short response to Jeff Atwood's question, 'If you had to pick one, what is the...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

.NET Regular Expressions: Regex and Balanced Matching [Ryan Byington]

One of the questions that seems to come up a lot is that someone wants to match balanced...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

Potential additions to the Math class [Katy King]

In preparation for the next version of the product, we've collected suggestions for additions to the...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

.NET Regular Expressions: how to use RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitspace [Ryan Byington]

The IgnorePatternWhitespace option tells the Regex parser to ignore any spaces or tabs in your...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

DirectoryInfo.Name lacks security checks [Ravi Krishnaswamy]

This came out of one of our internal security review. I thought I would post it here for beware...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

What are the New DateTime Features in Whidbey [Anthony Moore]

What are the New DateTime Features in Whidbey [Anthony Moore] DateTime has received quite a number...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

IO Exceptions will now reveal FullPath (if you have PathDiscovery access) [Ravi Krishnaswamy]

You might start noticing that in Whidbey Beta2, IO exceptions are handing out full qualified path...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

A Tracing Primer - Part I [Mike Rousos]

One of the changes in Whidbey will be a revamped tracing system. Much is unchanged - tracing...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

Writing a Useful Windows Service in .NET in Five Minutes [Dave Fetterman]

When opening up a new project in Visual Studio, one finds many, many options for deploying your new...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

Testing Managed ACL for IO [Lakshan Fernando]

One of the common requests we had after we shipped V1.1 was on managed ACL support for the...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

Synchronization in Generic Collections [Brian Grunkemeyer]

A few astute users of our generic collections observed that we no longer provide a public SyncRoot...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

Fixing bugs with compatibility in mind - an IO experience [Lakshan Fernando]

The current focus on the team is bug-fixing, but every so often we get a bug that may cause...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

Best V2.0 feature in the .NET Framework: A BCL Poll [Kit George]

OK, in response to Jeff Atwood’s questions:“If you had to pick one, what is the single...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

Come and Meet the CLR team! [Kit George]

The CLR team would love to meet any interested parties who are in the Seattle area, to chat about...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

The .NET Vision (aka: the big picture): what are we working towards? [Kit George]

In response to the query for input on what to blog about today, David asked the following question:...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

An intro to CodeDom [David Gutierrez]

I recently gave a talk on CodeDom for compiler writers, and I thought I would adapt some of those...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

The Base Class Library Program Manager (PM): a job description [Kit George]

I posted a while back on a job opening for a BCL PM position. We got a lot of great candidates in...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

PerformanceCounters: reading the disk counters [David Gutierrez]

I see a lot of complaints about counters in the Logical Disk/Physical Disk categories always...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

The SLAR on System.Convert [Brad Abrams]

It is been a while sense I posted in the series sharing some of the information in the .NET...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/15/2005

New Format on the Block [Anthony Moore]

One thing that has not changed much in Whidbey is the set of format strings used by base data types...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/09/2005

BCL, Blog Day! Tuesday 3/15/2005 (next week) [Kit George]

A heads-up all. The BCL has a chance next week to provide some added value, and we thought we'd keep...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/09/2005

How to Work Around Problems Serializing DateTime in XML [Anthony Moore]

I wrote a while ago about problems with the way DateTime worked with features like DataSet, XML...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/07/2005

Exceptions and Memory Management [Kit George]

Brad Abrams recently put together a slide deck on the topics of Exceptions, and Memory Management...

Author: BCL Team Date: 03/07/2005

A list of CLR bloggers [Kit George]

Shawn Farkas has made a list of various bloggers from the CLR, so you can know who the best personis...

Author: BCL Team Date: 02/25/2005

Knowing when NOT to use RegEx to match Strings (System.Text.RegularExpressions) [Kit George]

We recently got asked this question by a customer: "In C#, how do I ensure that a string entered...

Author: BCL Team Date: 02/21/2005

A Breaking Change we did in StringBuilder [Kit George]

Once again, we continue to have robust, passionate discussions around the breaking change bar for...

Author: BCL Team Date: 02/17/2005

Using Reflection to help formulate design guidelines [Kit George]

So I thought I would share some code I wrote today, to help me formulate a design guideline. I'm...

Author: BCL Team Date: 02/15/2005

String.Split and and some more robust behavior [Kit George]

We get a lot of people pointing out a fundamental design issue with String.Split: when you do your...

Author: BCL Team Date: 02/14/2005

Performance of IConvertible operations: which operation is fastest? [Kit George]

I saw this question recently: "Double d = ((IConvertible) o).ToDouble(...

Author: BCL Team Date: 02/11/2005

And we're off! TechEd 2005 Frameowkr planning is ON [Kit George]

Well, we're starting to plan aroudn the sessions for teched 2005, and as usual, we have a tremendous...

Author: BCL Team Date: 01/21/2005

An inside look at the Base Class Libraries Team on Channel 9! [Kit George]

Microsoft's channel 9 recently came by and did a video of the BCL team. The first video is now...

Author: BCL Team Date: 01/14/2005

An explanation of GetInvalidPathChars in System.IO, and a nod to GetInvalidFileNameChars [Kit George]

Something that a lot of people note with the Path class is that it has a method called...

Author: BCL Team Date: 01/11/2005

ResourceManager Video Presentation [Brian Grunkemeyer]

Ahmed & I did a video presentation on System.Resources and how to use the ResourceManager for...

Author: BCL Team Date: 01/10/2005

Extra! Extra! Generics CLS-compliant in Whidbey! [Peter Drayton]

As you may have already heard, the November CTP of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition was posted...

Author: BCL Team Date: 12/21/2004

DateTime Parsing and Formatting with Time Zones [Anthony Moore]

Here is a new DateTim FAQ entry. What is the relationship between DateTime parsing and formatting...

Author: BCL Team Date: 12/20/2004

A short note about Buffer.BlockCopy [Gang Peng]

Buffer.BlockCopy has following signature:public static void BlockCopy(Array src, int srcOffset,...

Author: BCL Team Date: 12/07/2004

Dead C Hacks: Reallocating or Changing an object's type in place in .NET? [Brian Grunkemeyer]

I was recently asked if there was a way to reallocate an object on top of another one, or to change...

Author: BCL Team Date: 12/02/2004

Get More information about Processes [Gang Peng]

System.Diagnostics.Process class provides APIs to get lots of information about Process, but it...

Author: BCL Team Date: 12/02/2004

Posted an article about System.Collections.ArrayList performance [Gang Peng]

https://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/articles/273454.aspx

Author: BCL Team Date: 12/01/2004

System.Collections.ArrayList performance analysis

ArrayList is one of the most commonly used data structure. However there is little information about...

Author: BCL Team Date: 12/01/2004

Managed Service Timeout during startup [Gang Peng]

It is not an easy job to write a windows service in unmanaged. There are many guidelines you need to...

Author: BCL Team Date: 12/01/2004

New MSIL & Subset CodeDom Provider samples [Peter Drayton]

There's a fair bit written about using CodeDom, but samples showing how to implement your own...

Author: BCL Team Date: 11/29/2004

Issues with Console APIs when stdout is redirected to a file [Ravi Krishnaswamy]

When you redirect stdout of your consoleapp to a file, you can expect that a number of Console APIs...

Author: BCL Team Date: 11/24/2004

Amusing thoughts before the holidays [Kit George]

We happened to discuss the new naming guideline for generics today, and for whatever reason, or...

Author: BCL Team Date: 11/24/2004

Some updated FAQs available on our website

Anthony Moore has updated the Numeric Types FAQ, and the Date and Time FAQ on our webiste. Check out...

Author: BCL Team Date: 11/19/2004

.NET Arrays, IList, Generic Algorithms, and what about STL? [Brian Grunkemeyer]

When we were designing our generic collections classes, one of the things that bothered me was how...

Author: BCL Team Date: 11/19/2004

Array.IndexOf performance caveat[Gang Peng]

Array.IndexOf are “generic” methods to search for an item in an one dimensional array....

Author: BCL Team Date: 11/18/2004

Path.GetDirectoryName [Ravi Krishnaswamy]

Clarifying the behavior of Path.GetDirectoryName. This is a convenient string parsing method to get...

Author: BCL Team Date: 11/16/2004

Regular Expression performance [David Gutierrez]

I often get questions about Regex and what the RegexOptions.Compiled flag actually does. There are...

Author: BCL Team Date: 11/12/2004

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