Junfeng Zhang's Windows Programming Notes

'>' and '<' are special characters in command prompt. They means input and output redirect. So they can't be directly echoed in command prompt. You need to escape them with '^'. C:\>echo < The syntax of the command is incorrect. C:\>echo...

Mark Tucker asks this question: <quote> I have the need to place a resources-only assembly in a well-known directory location that is not the GAC or under the ApplicationBase. I then use Assembly.LoadFrom to load the resource, assembly.GetManifestResourceStream...

Error 1709 is that Microsoft installer is not registered. “msiexec.exe /regserver” should fix that.

There is a known assembly loading race in .Net framework 1.0 and 1.1 when shadow copy is enabled in multiple appdomains. If your application has multiple appdomains and multiple threads, and those appdomains have the same CachePath , and the same ApplicationName...

Larry Osterman posted a blog about optimization http://blogs.msdn.com/LarryOsterman/archive/2004/05/03/125198.aspx . It simply says”Premature optimization is the root of all evil”! And I posted an interesting article about optimization...

Relative path is used a lot in Win32, and it makes sense. When I say relative path, I mean relative to the current directory. After all, there is no other directory that I can relative to. But in .Net, we do have another one! And it is called ApplicationBase...