I agree with my ZDNet blogging colleague Ryan Stewart. The biggest Mix '07 announcement made on opening day of this week's show was one that Microsoft didn't call out in any of its own press releases: ...

Statically typed languages are those in which you would need to specify the type of an object at the time when you define it. Examples of statically typed languages include C#, VB, and C++. On the ...

Microsoft's addition of generics to Visual Studio 2005 (code-named Whidbey) makes a new form of polymorphism available in Visual Basic .NET 2.0, C# 2.0, and the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Generics ...

The DLR adds to the Common Language Runtime (CLR), the heart of .Net, a set of services that are particularly attuned to dynamic languages. James Hamilton, whose signature identifies him these days as ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) layer for the .NET development platform. Designed to simplify the process of bringing support for additional dynamic languages to .NET, the ...