In native world, one interacts with OS directly by calling Win32 APIs for managing resources (like allocating/deallocating memory,opening/closing handles). In managed world one relies on CLR totally or at times partially for doing the same( eg GC does...

This article talks about marshaling structures using PInvoke which has a pointer to an array of another structure as a member. When calling native functions in a managed application, a frequent question that comes to mind is how to marshal a nested...

After migrating to Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and building the application, the manifest file of application and all the dependent DLL’s contain RTM version. In Visual Studio 2008 SP1, by design, the manifest for the created exe links it to the RTM version...

C++ code which contains an STL vector containing types derived from the_com_ptr_t COM smart pointer class and using the std:sort() function to sort interface pointers may give unexpected sort output._com_ptr_t COM smart pointer derived types are commonly...

This article focuses on troubleshooting a heap corruption caused by writing into the next allocated block. Heap corruption comes into notice when the overridden memory is accessed, leaving in a state where it becomes hard to figure out the original code...