What is DNX?

In the past, working in .NET for non-Windows platforms has been dependent on third-party frameworks like Mono. Now, with VS2015...

C# Async: What is it, and how does it work?

The biggest new feature in C#5 is Async, and its associated Await (contextual) keyword. Anybody who is faced with creating...

The Top 5 .NET Memory Management Misconceptions

.NET Memory management is an impressive and comprehensive system, but it's not flawless, and it's occasionally a little anti-intuitive. As...

Remote Debugging in Visual Studio: Squashing Bugs in their Native Environment

There are already third-party applications that help you to debug .NET applications remotely, or at least get enough information to...

The Joy of Clojure (book review)

It’s been a long time since Lisp and Scheme have been in the news. Despite the abilities of these languages...

F# and the rose-tinted reflection

We’re already seeing increasing use of many cores on client desktops. It is a change that has been long predicted....

.Net Reflector 6.5 EAP now available

With the release of CLR 4 being so close, we’ve been working hard on getting the new C# and VB...

Real-World Functional Programming (book review)

I had been reading Tomas Petricek’s blog for some time when he announced that he was going to be writing...