The App Compat Guy

When you come across issues debugging applications, there are typically several ways to solve them. Today, I'm going to pick on our own stuff and throw a few different shims at it. Interestingly enough, what I'm going to be shimming up will be the tool...

A question came up via comments. (I was going to say that it came up recently, but another glance reveals that it came up in, oh, June. I don’t think I can fairly call that recent…) “…the fix seems only to work if the directory structure exists…” This...

It seems like just yesterday I was posting about ACT 5.0.2 being released, but we just released ACT 5.0.3 . Now, I've had a couple of people confused about the version numbers we talk about, and what they actually see. For, rather unfortunately, you didn...

It's been a couple of months since we released the Windows Vista Compatibility Center , and while I meant to discuss it at the time, it's still worth a little chat. I talk quite a bit about the tools to test for application compatibility, sharing debugging...

I haven't seen these pop up yet - if you're looking for a quick demo of several of the tools available to assist in a Windows Vista deployment, you may enjoy the following 10 minute demos: http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/6/9/D6943262-EF5A-4733...