This post reflects my experiences as Developer Support Engineer for around 22 months.I was a Developer Support Engineer in VC/C# support team.Hopefully this will give some knowledge to others who wonder about what this role is. Though one expects you...

I am copying the text from the article http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480150.aspx with respect to changes that one needs to make in a manifest file if they want to run the applications on vista Note:When you compile the application using...

As Vista released, Developer who are using Visual Studio to develop applications will have lot of questions Please refer "Visual Studio and Windows Vista" http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948853.aspx and Frequently Asked Questions http...

As a support engineer I have been troubleshooting so many cases where Visual Studio 2005 was throwing an error while generating an external manifest file, while embedding manifest, while using additional manifest files. It is important to know "How...

There is possibility of getting the above error when you compile a C++ application that is making heavy use of templates with covariant return types I had a customer who was getting the above error (As a support engineer I thought I can write a post...

As a support engineer I have come across a customer who was not able to run a VS2003 compiled app that is using a VS2005 compiled DLL ( He is using Load Library to load the DLL) Here is his scenario a) VS2003 compiled app(net_run.exe) using VS2003...

Here is the link where we can get some info on Visual Studio 2005 service pack release date http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/servicing/default.aspx

I am a support Engineer and has handled large number of cases related to C/C++ Isolated applications and side-by-side assemblies. I came across different errors and is able to find resolution with the help of my Escalation Engineers. Here is the list...