In the Networking area, there are quite a few. Both in terms of throughput
and scalability.

They fixed some issues with the datastructure that holds Overlapped I/O
objects that caused probably with >50k open sockets, eliminated a number of
cases surrounding pinning/unpinning/pinning memory, and some other goodies.

I'm not sure about other areas, but I can tell ya C# 3 is a huge boost for
developer performance!

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Chris Mullins

"schneider" <eschneider.news.ms (AT) starkinvestments (DOT) com> wrote

That's great, would like hear to more, but seems the info is hard to find.
Seems they spend more time building new things, and less time improving
existing items.

I think I heard somewhere there is a lot of room for improvement in CLR
optimization...

Schneider



"Chris Mullins [MVP - C#]" <cmullins (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

I'm pretty happy so far with .Net 3.5. The new features are great, and
really make it easier to write code.

If I had to prioritize between:
1 - "Develop and ship WCF and LINQ"
2 - "Make the Jitter do better optimizations on x86 and x64", I can say,
without any doubt, I would go with WCF.

The new stuff is such a huge boost in terms of developer productivity, that
it far outstrips everything else.

I do my fair shair of ripping on .Net from time to time, but you've got to
give credit where it's do. The new stuff is really fantastic.

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Chris Mullnis

"schneider" <eschneider.news.ms (AT) starkinvestments (DOT) com> wrote

If I asked you to describe WCF in few lines what would you say?
Also if you could say why it's so productive for you?
Does WCF support server initiated messages to the Clients?

The little bit that I have read it sound like a combination of remoting and
webservices, better performance, easier security, and sounds like a more
robust messaging system...

I have been using VS beta using the 2.0 Framework, seems to work fine there,
and plan to do more research soon in the 3.5 Framework...

Currently I prefer Remoting over webservices, seems webservices are a pain
to maintain, deployment & IIS issues, config issues, debugging issues, web
reference issues.

Thanks,

Schneider


"Chris Mullins [MVP - C#]" <cmullins (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote