Internal Mechanism Internally the Visual Studio IDE interacts with editor and the language parsers to create a list of tokens that are updated frequently. In this process the background threads continuously update the Intellisense database. The priority...

Suppose you are calling some native code from your managed code, and you observe an Access Violation crash soon after returning from the native code inside your managed code. if you run the application inside the Visual Studio debugger you will see the...

I am back with some more PInvoke Stuff. Recently I was working on a PInvoke issue which I found interesting. I have a C++ dll which has a function whose signature is int TestFunc(IN_STRUCT in_Params, RET_STRUCT * pret_Par). I wanted to call this...

Recently I worked with one of my colleague on an interesting scenario in which the MFC application was crashing on startup. The next step was to run the application under WinDbg. After running the application under WinDbg we saw that we are actually access...

Recently, we came across a very interesting issue. A purely native application written in C++ was failing with "Not a valid win32 application" error at the startup on Windows XP machine. There are a few basic checks that we do to troubleshoot this...