B# .NET Blog

I just arrived on the ATE booth for Virtual Server for my late shift of the day (till 9:00 PM). Actually there is a “Exhibition Welcome Drinks” scheduled over here in Hall 11 at 7:00 PM.

In the last couple of hours I attended Gert Drapers' session on “SQLCLR Internals: SQL Server 2005 as a CLR Runtime Host”. Gert dit a great job explaining the inner details of how SQL Server 2005 loads and executes .NET code compiled into IL and how the underlying SQL OS uses the new ICLRRuntimeHost interface to interact with the CLR and to dictate how the CLR behaves (e.g. on the field of threading or memory allocation and synchronization). Later on I'll post in much more detail how these things work and what things such as Host Protection Attributes, blessed assemblies, the escalation policy and dynamic management and catalog views mean.

After that, I went to take a look at the "Longhorn Client Security Advancements" session by Steve Hiskley. In this session a brief overview of the various security enhancements that are planned for the Longhorn OS release was given. I won't cover this any further for now but it looks promising and I'll give you more information about these features soon when Longhorn Beta 1 hits the road later this summer.