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't see 5.0.2 anywhere in the last one, nor will you see 5.0.3 in the new one. Why don't we do you the honor of showing that in the help - about? As it turns out, we branched way back when at RTW, so the Main branch lived on, while the RTW branch was where we finished things up. As it turns out, the 5.0.1, 5.0.2, and 5.0.3 updates where all released off of the RTW branch, so 5.0.5428.x has remained the naming convention, and we have just kept incrementing the build number.
ACT 5.0.2 == 5.0.5428.1056
ACT 5.0.3 == 5.0.5428.1080
So, that being said, what's new in the 1080 release?
Major Bug Fixes:
SUA:
ACM:
It does require you to uninstall the old toolkit first, and then install the new one. The schema changed, so you'll have to upgrade your database also (warning if you've got apps or scripts crawling around in there). Hopefully it's helpful!
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Cool Chris thanks,I am really looking and hoping to see future versions of ACT [SUA in particular] fully supporting .NET app's in compability testing.
Hi Ganesh,
I test managed code using SUA all the time - the only thing you lose is the stack traces. Of course, stack traces are a nice thing to have...
Chris
Yep , I was talking about getting the proper stack traces in SUA, it would make my life much simpler :).
-Ganesh
I just want to run the Vbscript using the SUA tool. will this tool capture the UAC related issues as like when we are running the EXE using the SUA tool.
Thanks in advance.
Knock yourself out. Just launch cscript/wscript with the command line argument for your script.
I am intrested to know abot how many shims are available in this New ACT tool kit version?
How frequently the MS will update the shim database?
If they update it, how will come to know?
Please could updat me.
In SUA tool......I have seen lot of tabs other than Files & Registries........
So here do we need to resolve the issues for other TABs also.(like Previliges, Name space, objects, Tokens)
Will these TAB's also effect the functionality issues?
Chris--
I'm glad that Microsoft is continuing development on the ImagingToolkit, but when are they going to provide add wildcard support for the CorrectFilePaths shim?! This would be a most welcome feature, as I'm stuck with an application that uses some old commercial DLLs that try to use the root of C:\ (%systemdrive% or / or \) as a temporary file/buffer area when performing certain operations. We have the original VB 6.0 source code for the custom app but not the commercially licensed (read: close-sourced) DLLs which are supposedly at fault.
The only alternative we have is to write our own third party app to hook the API read/write calls to the root of the drive and only calls that are coming from this one specific process.
Anyway, good work and thank you for maintaining this blog. It's a great supplement to the official MS documentation which in some cases notably lacking in content or clarity.
-A
ABC-
Shims aren't distributed with ACT, they're distributed through Windows. ACT just provides the viewer and the ability to create custom shim databases with what's already there.
We update the shim database via Windows Update - you'll see them as application compatibility updates.
As for SUA, I'd use the Mitigation tool to find fixes for issues that appear in other tabs. Yes, they can absolutely affect functionality, otherwise we wouldn't bother detecting them!
Anthony -
I brought up the issue of lack of wildcard support again today, and I'll forward on your comment as additional evidence of the need. I'm seeing what I can do, and when I can do it...
Thanks,
Hi Chris,
Thanks a lot giving answers to all my questions.
I was in a trance like the shims are getting updated with the ACT tool itself. Now I understood it clearly.
coming to SUA tool. SO other tabs also will effect the functionality. But I am not able to understand issues related to other tabs other than Files & registries. How can I remediate it?...do you have any material with it.
Chrish, How many shims are availabe now?.....If we want to know how can we? do we need to count all the shims by opening CA database?
ABC
Just open up CompatAdmin and select Compatibility Fixes. We'll tell you the count in the lower left hand corner.
How many there are depends on which OS you're running.
Chris,
most of the application are remediated using the WINDOWS XP SP2 VERSION LIE shim.
how it is working exactly after applying this shim. I mean to say, like whether this application will treat it is working on the windows-xp platform or whether it is redirecting any of the API calls?
Please can you answer this. I am really interested in knowing this concept.
Please open the help file. This shim, among others, is described in detail there.