.NET 9 significantly improves exception handling performance. The previous structured exception handling on Windows (SEH) and its emulation on Unix were removed. The new implementation is based on the NativeAOT runtime's exception-handling model.

It is time to document the undocumeted network-related events from the .NET BCL - chnasarre.medium.com/digging-into-t…

What’s next with the new Outlook for Windows 🙃 ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions…

Why Software Fails and What Testers Can Do About It - James Whittaker - 1999/05 youtu.be/-uvL4ComJhU

Paintbrush on Windows 3.1

you could walk into a store in 2004, pay $20 for a piece of microsoft branded software and get a whole set of people dancing on your taskbar. what a world

Games For Windows, introduced in November 2006, was a Microsoft certification that identified games meeting certain requirements. This included support for 64-bit CPUs, widescreen, XBox controllers & Windows Vista’s (2006) new Games Explorer. It was discontinued in August 2013.

It's this time of year again where I document the latest System.Text.Json features for the upcoming .NET release: devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/system-… #dotnet

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hachyderm.io/@ilspy/1133179…

A Sneak Peek at CSnakes: Embed Python code in .NET Apps | On .NET w/ James Montemagno & Anthony Shaw. #dotnet #python #csharp #csnakes #programming youtube.com/watch?v=U4-95g…

Microsoft has open sourced its new cross-platform virtual machine layer written in Rust: github.com/microsoft/open… From many of the same team who created WSL, including 𝕓𝕖𝕟 𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕤.

Also, Microsoft makes the UEFI firmware of Hyper-V Generation 2 Virtual Machines open source due to OpenVMM. I think it's a good news for Hyper-V users. github.com/microsoft/mu_m…

HvLite/Underhill

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.NET 9.0 LINQ Performance Improvements blog.ndepend.com/net-9-0-linq-p… #dotnet #csharp #performance

Today @Unity 6 releases . Our '6 Hours of Unity 6' livestream kicks off in about an hour at 8a PT/11aET/1500 UTC. I kick off the stream followed by product team interviews. Drop by, say hi and learn about the latest release. on.unity.com/3BWpY2X

Dimensional #FluentEmoji finally arrived for #Windows11 users earlier this year... but why the wait 🤔? Discover the journey of our emoji evolution through the COLRv1 font format and how our design teams brought the vibrant emoji to life ⬇️. msft.it/6004mCGY8

Python 3.14's first alpha release came out the other day, and has just made it onto the Windows Store. It's unlisted, but if you'd like it, it's at microsoft.com/store/apps/9NT… Also, we updated our signing certificate, so it's now issued by Azure Trusted Signing and not DigiCert.

Detailed blog on OpenHCL: techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-os-…