Hi all! I have been involved recently in the troubleshooting of a type library-related problem reported by a customer. Since the problem is general enough, I am sharing the basic principles in this post. The topic deals with the way type libraries reference...

This post is devoted to .NET Remoting , one of the technologies supported by our Distributed Services support team (though I should add that the volume of requests is not, and never has been, very high). WCF is being more and more widely adopted as the...

Introduction I recently got questions from a couple of customers on the implications of using generic types (generics) in .NET on code bloat (also known as code explosion). This is a legitimate concern and let me explain why. Among the most popular programming...

As you probably know, the .NET Framework 4.0 is going to introduce a new object model for the Workflow Foundation (WF) technology, in short called WF4, which will be added to the existing WF object model, in short called WF3. The WF3 object model uses...

Hello again. Today's case is pretty interesting, in my opinion, because it merges a number of different areas. We'll start from the analysis of a memory corruption to go to Runtime Callable Wrappers in the .NET CLR to finish with COM objects lifetime...

Introduction Hello again. It has been more than one month since the last post. I guess the Christmas vacation and the local christmas sweet played a role in this delay . In the last few days I was faced with an interesting issue: a Windows Forms application...

Some colleagues and friends pointed out that, after a couple of tough postings on, respectively, DCOM Communication and Heap Corruption , it may be time for a light one. Fair enough, we are approaching the winter holiday season so you may prefer something...

Here we go again: it is snowing in Milan while I am publishing a new blog post . Admittedly, this coincidence is getting more and more interesting, maybe meteorogists can spot a pattern here . Today's topic is a tough one: memory corruption. Introduction...

Hi all,this is my first post after a LONG LONG time since I created the (so far empty) blog. I guess it is not by coincidence that last night it snowed in Milan . Let's get started with the case study at hand. In the Distributed Services team in Microsoft...