It's always great to spend some time geeking out with Bart De Smet. As usual, he has a lot of technical details to share and only so much whiteboard real estate. Bart is still deeply engaged with Rx (evolving it, putting it to new uses, making it even more general and capable). How so, you ask? Well, ask Cortana. She will tell you that, in fact, Rx is one those wonderful things that make her so asynchronously capable and reliable at managing your calendar and the growing list of other...

It's always great to spend some time geeking out with Bart De Smet. As usual, he has a lot of technical details to share and only so much whiteboard real estate. Bart is still deeply engaged with Rx (evolving it, putting it to new uses, making it even more general and capable). How so, you ask? Well, ask Cortana. She will tell you that, in fact, Rx is one those wonderful things that make her so asynchronously capable and reliable at managing your calendar and the growing list of other...

What happens when .NET code is statically compiled to machine code (versus runtime compiled via JIT) by the VC++ back end compiler? You get highly optimized binaries that load and run faster than .NET code ever has before. Yes, my friends, .NET has gone native! :) Today, the .NET team is releasing a preview of their new compiler technology, .NET Native. You can generate .NET native binaries for Windows Store apps only (in this preview). Tune in and meet a few key members of the .NET Native...

Code Digger is a lightweight version of Pex that allows you to explore public .NET methods in Portable Libraries directly from the Visual Studio 2012 code editor. It's a highly simplified and nifty way to leverage the power of Pex and Z3, one of the world's fastest constraint solvers. So, how does Code Digger actually work? Why the PCL requirement? What happens when you click on the magic button, Alice?Nikolai Tillmann and Peli de Halleux, software developers extraordinaire on MSR's RiSE...

Code Digger is a lightweight version of Pex that allows you to explore public .NET methods in Portable Libraries directly from the Visual Studio 2012 code editor. It's a highly simplified and nifty way to leverage the power of Pex and Z3, one of the world's fastest constraint solvers. So, how does Code Digger actually work? Why the PCL requirement? What happens when you click on the magic button, Alice?Nikolai Tillmann and Peli de Halleux, software developers extraordinaire on MSR's RiSE...

Immutable Collections are a new set of immutable types for .NET. We covered the high level aspects of this new technology a few months back when Erik Meijer interrogated (in his friendly way) the PM of the project, Immo Landwerth, and the lead developer, Andrew Arnott. Since this time, they have received a lot of feedback (thank you!) and have also been busy refining and optimizing their code. Here, Andrew and Immo go deep into how this stuff works and why it's designed the way it is. We talk...

Immutable Collections are a new set of immutable types for .NET. We covered the high level aspects of this new technology a few months back when Erik Meijer interrogated (in his friendly way) the PM of the project, Immo Landwerth, and the lead developer, Andrew Arnott. Since this time, they have received a lot of feedback (thank you!) and have also been busy refining and optimizing their code. Here, Andrew and Immo go deep into how this stuff works and why it's designed the way it is. We talk...

ActorFx is an MSOpenTech open source project with the goal of providing a non-prescriptive, language-independent model of dynamic distributed objects. This will in turn provide a framework and infrastructure on top of which highly available data structures and other logical entities can be implemented. ActorFx (aka Ax) is based on the idea of the Actor Model developed by Carl Hewitt. Erik Meijer figured this model would fit perfectly into the realm of managing data in the cloud. See his paper...

ActorFx is an MSOpenTech open source project with the goal of providing a non-prescriptive, language-independent model of dynamic distributed objects. This will in turn provide a framework and infrastructure on top of which highly available data structures and other logical entities can be implemented. ActorFx (aka Ax) is based on the idea of the Actor Model developed by Carl Hewitt. Erik Meijer figured this model would fit perfectly into the realm of managing data in the cloud. See his paper...

Herb Sutter presents atomic> Weapons, 2 of 2. This was filmed at C++ and Beyond 2012. As the title suggests, this is a two part series (given the depth of treatment and complexity of the subject matter). STOP! => Watch part 1 first! Download the slides. Abstract: This session in one word: Deep. It's a session that includes topics I've publicly said for years is Stuff You Shouldn't Need To Know and I Just Won't Teach, but it's becoming achingly clear that people do need to know about it....

Herb Sutter presents atomic> Weapons, 2 of 2. This was filmed at C++ and Beyond 2012. As the title suggests, this is a two part series (given the depth of treatment and complexity of the subject matter). STOP! => Watch part 1 first! Download the slides. Abstract: This session in one word: Deep. It's a session that includes topics I've publicly said for years is Stuff You Shouldn't Need To Know and I Just Won't Teach, but it's becoming achingly clear that people do need to know about it....

Herb Sutter presents atomic> Weapons, 1 of 2. This was filmed at C++ and Beyond 2012. As the title suggests, this is a two part series (given the depth of treatment and complexity of the subject matter). Part 1 -> Optimizations, races, and the memory model; acquire and release ordering; mutexes vs. atomics vs. fences Download the slides. Abstract: This session in one word: Deep. It's a session that includes topics I've publicly said for years is Stuff You Shouldn't Need To Know and I...

Herb Sutter presents atomic> Weapons, 1 of 2. This was filmed at C++ and Beyond 2012. As the title suggests, this is a two part series (given the depth of treatment and complexity of the subject matter). Part 1 -> Optimizations, races, and the memory model; acquire and release ordering; mutexes vs. atomics vs. fences Download the slides. Abstract: This session in one word: Deep. It's a session that includes topics I've publicly said for years is Stuff You Shouldn't Need To Know and I...

Chris Stevens is a software developer on the Windows kernel team working on the Windows boot environment. Windows 8 boots faster than any other version of Windows. Why? How? Chris begins with the fundamentals (so, if you don't know anything about the boot process or what actually happens when an OS like Windows starts up, then you will after watching this...) and then digs into how the boot experience/environment/process was has evolved in Windows 8. Tune in!

Chris Stevens is a software developer on the Windows kernel team working on the Windows boot environment. Windows 8 boots faster than any other version of Windows. Why? How? Chris begins with the fundamentals (so, if you don't know anything about the boot process or what actually happens when an OS like Windows starts up, then you will after watching this...) and then digs into how the boot experience/environment/process was has evolved in Windows 8. Tune in!

Jon Berry, a veteran Windows engineer, digs into the new way Windows 8 manages processes to support the brave new world of Windows running on various CPU architectures including ARM and ATOM, which present an interesting set of technical challenges given the need to aggressively preserve energy when running—yet not fully running—while in a battery-powered state. Jon owns the Desktop Activity Moderator (DAM), which, as the name implies, moderates desktop processes. The DAM is one of several...

Jon Berry, a veteran Windows engineer, digs into the new way Windows 8 manages processes to support the brave new world of Windows running on various CPU architectures including ARM and ATOM, which present an interesting set of technical challenges given the need to aggressively preserve energy when running—yet not fully running—while in a battery-powered state. Jon owns the Desktop Activity Moderator (DAM), which, as the name implies, moderates desktop processes. The DAM is one of several...

Herb Sutter presents C++ Concurrency. This was filmed at C++ and Beyond 2012. Get Herb's slides for this session. Herb says: I've spoken and written on these topics before. Here's what's different about this talk: Brand new: This material goes beyond what I've written and taught about before in my Effective Concurrency articles and courses. Cutting-edge current: It covers the best-practices state of the art techniques and shipping tools, and what parts of that are standardized in C++11...

Herb Sutter presents C++ Concurrency. This was filmed at C++ and Beyond 2012. Get Herb's slides for this session. Herb says: I've spoken and written on these topics before. Here's what's different about this talk: Brand new: This material goes beyond what I've written and taught about before in my Effective Concurrency articles and courses. Cutting-edge current: It covers the best-practices state of the art techniques and shipping tools, and what parts of that are standardized in C++11...

Dr. Marko A. Rodriguez is the Founder and CEO of the graph technology firm Aurelius and creator of the graph traversal language Gremlin. He has focused his academic and commercial career on graph theory, network science, and graph-system architecture and development.Here, we learn about graph systems, database architectures, and high level graph theory. Tune in. Lots to learn!

Dr. Marko A. Rodriguez is the Founder and CEO of the graph technology firm Aurelius and creator of the graph traversal language Gremlin. He has focused his academic and commercial career on graph theory, network science, and graph-system architecture and development.Here, we learn about graph systems, database architectures, and high level graph theory. Tune in. Lots to learn!

The Windows heap manager has been around as long as Windows has, evolving with each release, getting faster, more reliable, and more secure. In Windows 8, the heap manager improves in two major areas: performance and security. In this video, Greg Colombo, a developer on the Windows kernel team working on the Windows heap manager, digs into the details. What are the changes that positively impact performance and security?This conversation—conducted entirely at the whiteboard—provides enough...