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CLR/Silverlight/Orcas/C#

• One of the things that has been a bit fustrating over the years with the CLR is the limitation of one CLR per process. Specifically, where this shows up is Outlook add-ins and other extensibility scenarios, in fact the model is kind of broken without as another add-in could break you from even loading. One of the nice things starting with Silverlight is support for multiple CLRs per process.
• ScottGu has a four part series on new Orcas language features; the latest is Anonymous Types
• Ian's Language Choice and the VB Continous Irritation Tax is a must read. Multiple people have made the "Even though the runtime supports multiple languages, most programmers are only fluent in one" argument over the years but the VB irritations descriptions are priceless
• Mike Harsh has updated Silverlight Pad and it now has Javascript Editing and Preview
• Mads talks about whether C# is becoming a functional language and talks about recursive lamda expressions. One thing for certain is that C# is becoming a more complex language, not so simple and whether thats a good or bad thing is up for debate. Jon Flanders and I were talking over dinner last night about back in the day he and I as COM programmers could keep most of our known universe in your head. Today the pace is so furious that you have to keep WCF, WF, .NET Frammework, Silverlight, Atlas, BizTalk Server and many others in your head such that a Solution Architect who digests all this stuff and picks the "right" way to go makes a heck of a lot of sense these days
• Jim has a post on DLR Trees (Part 1)
• John answers more DLR questions
• Meanwhile the Mono folks got the DLR up and running in 16 days! Wow!
• Scott Hanselman's post on Reflector Add-Ins is a must read
• Jamie takes yet another step to Godhood with new version of TestDriven.NET (2.7 Beta) with support for Silverlight/CoreCLR.

[tags: CLR, Silverlight, WPF/E, DLR, C#, Microsoft]