Omer asks me why we do in place servicing for .Net framework SP, and not following our own recommended practice of using publish policy. This is an excellent question. And I am sure many many people have the same question in mind. There are several reasons...

I come cross this web site ( http://www.JavaRss.com ) when reading newsgroup Comp.Lang.Java.Adcocacy. This is an impressive web site for aggregated Java information. Any similar web site for .Net?

AppHack is a terminology used in AppCompat. Basically AppCompat detects a specific application, and applies an AppHack if necessary. One typical AppHack is to lie about the OS version number, due to applications use the wrong logic to check the minimum...

I posted a rather long reply in newsgroup microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.clr, to help diagnose "Access Denied" error on Assembly Loading. http://communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc...

Jamie asks about what is aspnet.config. Alan has a detailed discussion on binding policies. http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/alanshi/commentview.aspx/d4edb084-c625-4b6e-8e5c-7c2580cfcee9 And aspnet.config is what Alan described as Host Policy. I don't really...

I usually would like to keep the discussion in the blog so that the discussion can be shared to everyone. After all, this is why I start the blog in the first place --- share information with everyone. blogs.msdn.com recently implemented a global policy...

http://techpreview.search.msn.com is back. I frequently scan Microsoft public newsgroups, including the Whidbey newsgroups. In my laptop I did not configure any newsgroups in outlook express. And I rely on the online newsgroup reader at microsoft.com...

According to this zdnet article, Via's next CPU release will be compatible with AMD64. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5397646.html

Some people asked me about obsfucation and IP protection. Myself is strongly against obsfucation. And I believe as a platform vendor, it is critical that we ship our framework without obsfucation. Fortunately, most people do agree with me. And we do ship...

October 1st is China's National Day. Today, it is China's 55th anniversary. As a tradition, tens of thousands of people garther in Tiananmen Square, watching the grand national flag raising ceremony. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-10/01...

You won't believe how many Microsoft people are blogging. http://blogs.msdn.com just hits the thousand mark --- there are 1000 Microsoft bloggers in http://blogs.msdn.com !!! How do you deal with this information explosion? Well, you filter. But how?...

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/ Including support for MDAC 2.8, Tablet 1.7, and Windows Installer 3.0.

Java 2 platform Standard Edition 5.0 is released today. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp Not a big news for Microsoft. But a big news for the industry.

This is purely terminology we used internally. Assembly Binding is the process of probing. A.k.a, given an assembly name, finding out where the assembly is. Assembly binding is performed by fusion. This also includes applying policy. Managed code is not...

When CLR loader cannot find an assembly via the standard probing, CLR loader will give you a chance to provide the assembly, by firing AssemblyResolve event. You can subscribe to this event, and provide the assembly when necessary. Now what if your event...

I added the functionality to enumerate install references of GAC assemblies to the managed GAC API wrappers. Meanwhile I added some comments in UninstallAssembly to explain the behavior David Levine saw. It is really about what is fully specified name...

Majority of the time, you can use fuslogvw.exe to find out why an assembly load failed. There are times when fusion binding log tells you that the assembly is found successfully, but you still get an FileLoadException. One of the common case is that one...

Gacutil shows the content of ngen cache in v1.0 and v1.1. In v2.0, this feature is removed from gacutil. The reason is several folds: 1. We want people to use the right tool for the right job. Ngen.exe is the right tool to managed ngen cache. Gacutil...

I can think of three reasons that you need to use GAC APIs, instead of the existing tools. 1. Customized installer: You need to install assemblies to GAC, and you cannot install MSI. Example: The assemblies are created when your application runs. So those...

In case you don't know, the contral center from ATI's latest driver offer requires .Net framework 1.1. http://ati.com/support/drivers/winxp/radeonwdm-xp.html?type=xp&prodType=graphic&prod=productsXPdriver&submit.x=12&submit.y=6&submit...

In case you did not notice, there is an "Article" link in the blog's main page I added three articles there. Fusion GAC API Samples Sample Managed GAC API Wrappers Test Application for Managed GAC API Wrappers As usually, those are provided "AS IS" with...

//------------------------------------------------------------- // GACTest.cs // // This is a test application for Managed GAC API Wrappers //------------------------------------------------------------- using System; using System.GACManagedAccess; public...

//------------------------------------------------------------- // GACWrap.cs // // This implements managed wrappers to GAC API Interfaces //------------------------------------------------------------- using System; using System.Runtime.InteropServices;...

For displaying purpose, error handling is skipped in all the sample code. Please don’t skip error handling in production code. 1.1. Get GAC API Interfaces Before use GAC API interfaces, you have to get GAC API interfaces. GAC API interfaces are pseudo...

Every assembly has so-called "Display name". As of today, the display name of an assembly is shown as "name, Version=xx.xx.xx.xx, Culture=xx, PublicKeyToken=xx". It starts with a "name", then a bunch of "key=value" pairs, separated by comma. Thos keys...