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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...

Robots will soon be in action moving around you, to make your life easier. This is not the tagline from the Hollywood movie “I, Robot” but is a real life fact! Yes, this is a dream come true. In the third week of November 2008, we proudly introduced Microsoft...

This was my yet another venture with Microsoft Evangelism team. I was invited as the Speaker on .NET troubleshooting in the chalktalk session where developers all across logged in to the live meeting and threw a lot of questions on me. The DPE team recorded...

2. Application slow to load: Scenario : “Our application takes too long to load for the first time. It exhibits the same behavior once in a while…” To go ahead and analyze this scenario, we need to understand as to what happens when the application...

Recently I had been to couple of places on behalf of Microsoft DPE (Developer & Platform Evangelism) group as part of their new initiative Innovation Day to talk about The developer's toolkit for .NET . It was an exciting experience and it was little...

Stack is one of the most widely understood data structures in computer science. It is a general purpose data structure and is a part of most of modern day computer architectures as well. In the context of a thread running in an executing process, “the...

Troubleshooting side by side problems is not a challenging task unless you break the basic checks which are required to successfully run your application. These rules help you track the problem area in your application at the first stage. For more information...

Let’s go back to the older days, when code sharing was an integral decision taken by application developers. Code sharing allowed developers to write efficient and light-weight applications with less memory utilization. Creating a shared component in...

When a managed application is built on Visual Studio , we get four options to choose for a platform .Lets discuss these options in detail . 1)x86 X86 is the generic name for all Intel x86 32 bit architectures. If you build your application using...

Authenticode , also referred as a “ digital signature ” , is an industry standard of verifying the source of an application by setting up a trust relationship with the publisher of the application. However, digitally signing your managed application might...

You may run into the problem, while upgrading from lower CRT to higher CRT version or when you mix the CRT versions. It may result in Access Violation. Here, I have used WinDbg to debug such a scenario. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out the cause...

Well, the dependency information is added to manifest file by a tool known as mt.exe. But this information is provided to mt.exe by linker. And linker gets this information from linker directives. Now these linker directives are present in two places...