Blogged: Removing byte[] allocations in .NET Framework using ReadOnlySpan<T>
andrewlock.net/removingbyte...
In this post I describe how to remove static byte[] allocations, even on .NET Framework, by using Span<T> look at the associated IL, and discuss the potential risks
#dotnet
Great discussion about "new" async/await in .NET with Andy Gocke from the .NET team! A lot for me to read and dig into the new implementation - github.com/dotnet/runti...
Magical
After DIA and DbgHelp, time to dig into ISymUnmanagedReader to get line and source information from .NET Framework symbols - chnasarre.medium.com/7663f9043b6b...
This is nice: thanks VS!
1h40 de sujets techniques liés aux bons/mauvais usages des strings en .NET avec tout plein de questions pertinentes de @dvoituron.bsky.social, Adrien Clerbois et @peug.net.
Les ressources (outils, code source et vidéos) sont aussi disponibles.
devapps.ms/podcasts/116...
Why would you need .pdb files for .NET assemblies? Don't their already contain all the needed metadata?
This post will show you how to extract the source code and line number information from the .pdb files generated by .NET compilers thanks to DbgHelp API.
chnasarre.medium.com/4188f862211d...
I just implemented a tool accepting a .pdb file to generate a .sym file listing functions symbols. A first post (chnasarre.medium.com/9826fd4f251e...) shows the coding details.
I'm sharing my vibe coding experience using Cursor in a second longer one (chnasarre.medium.com/f957106a3e9f...)
I spent more time than expected to understand why my .NET profiler never received the event that would help me figuring out the GC mode (Server/Workstation) but Perfview and dotnet-trace did.
I needed to debug the CLR to realize that the event is emitted before the profiler gets initialized :^(
And now the profiler is deadlocking the GC :^(
When you realize that the C++ exceptions you get while debugging your complicated profiler code come from... the Windows anti-virus
Venez nous retrouver au DevDay 2025... et avec une ristourne de 20% avec ce code devday.be/ticket?disco... ;^)
En plus de venir discuter du "moins mauvais" usage des strings avec moi, beaucoup d'autres présentations sont très intéresantes.
A très bientôt !
If you want to recompile the .NET 10 RC2 clr to get a solution for VS2026, you should add "18 2026" to that line of runtime\eng\native\gen-buildsys.cmd.
Otherwise the build command will fail
The slides and source code for the two #Techorama sessions (including the duet with @kevingosse.net) are available in github.com/chrisnas/Tec...
Whaaaaaaat!!!!
My Astronomy Pix of the day app is broken :^(
Too bad it is not version 11111.11
The 3.28 release of the Datadog .NET profiler supports the new allocations sampling of .NET 10 that allows us to provide a much more statistically accurate view of your application memory!
github.com/DataDog/dd-t...
Thanks Noah Falk for his help on this ~2 years project :^)
I don't understand how people could use GPTs efficiently...
I'm looking for implementation details in the .NET runtime for the generation of gcdump and... ChatGPT and Deepseek are just hallucinating even when I'm pointing them to the current CLR main branch :^(
It is not too late to register to @azuredevsummit!
Here is a $200 discount code!
Discount code = spkrpromo
Registration link = azuredevsummit.com/tickets
P.S. Meet there to talk about strings in .NET and maybe win a signed copy of the second edition of Pro .NET Memory ;^)
Time to install VS 2026 now :^)
Did anyone ever tried to use the Wait Chain Transversal API with critical section?
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window... implies that it works for critical section but it does not
- the wait field always contain 0 for Mutex (I tried infinite and finite wait)
It seems that I mistyped the ZoomIt video recording shortcut...
Starting to look at GPUs...
Time for a break!
So many birds in Tanzania!
C'est vraiment très triste de perdre un tel talent de passeur de connaissances :^(
www.pourlascience.fr/sr/regards/r...
See you next year in Krakow!
When you are allocating a little bit more than usual...
