Videos tagged with CLR

See how the CLR team slimmed down the size of the runtime into a small, zippy download, the Core CLR, yet kept the experience .NET developers have come to love. Brandon Bray Brandon Bray is Senior Program Manager Lead in the Common Language Runtime and responsible for the foundations of the .NET technology stack. His team works on the garbage collector, code generators (JIT, NGEN...

John walked through some of the cool stuff they are doing with IronRuby. He started out showing how you can host the ruby engine in a C# application, in just a couple lines of code he wrote a WPF irb clone. He also showed how with C# 4.0 you can run the ruby engine, send it code, then reach in and get specific variables and pull them back out (using the dynamic keyword). He went on to show acce...

Summary In this interview from RubyFringe, John Lam talks about his work on IronRuby and how Microsoft is approaching Open Source software development. Bio John Lam is Program Manager on the Dynamic Language Runtime team at Microsoft. He created RubyCLR, and is now working on the team that is creating IronRuby, Microsoft's implementation of Ruby.

Summary In this interview made by Sadek Drobi during QCon San Francisco 2007, Neal Ford talks about the tendency of having multiple languages running on one of the two major platforms existing today: Java and .NET. He also presents the advantages offered by Ruby compared to static languages like Java or C#. Bio Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consu...

Summary Justin Smith presents the internals of the .NET Garbage Collector and how you should design your types to play nicely with it. Learn about heap allocations, the GC Algorithms, Multiprocessor considerations, and the IDisposable pattern. Bio Justin Smith works for Microsoft as a Technical Evangelist focusing on WCF. He specializes in designing and building enterprise distributed applicati...

As dynamic languages gain popularity, it becomes more important to play well with others. There are a tremendous number of useful libraries that ship with the .NET platform that Ruby developers can use in their applications. RubyCLR is a bridge between the standard C-based implementation of the Ruby interpreter, and code that executes in the .NET Common Language Runtime. We will look at the des...