Junfeng Zhang's Windows Programming Notes

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...

One day when I visit http://www.theserverside.net , I hit this error: Error 500--Internal Server Error org.apache.tapestry.BindingException: Unable to resolve expression 'threadUpdated ? messages.getMessage("new-messages-in-thread") : null' for portal...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?

Josh Williams posted a blog about .Net 1.0/1.1 applications on Win64. http://blogs.msdn.com/joshwil/archive/2004/10/15/243019.aspx If you care about your application running under Win64, you should read that blog.

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...

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

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?...

If you care about remoting, you should check out Manish's blog. http://blogs.msdn.com/manishg Manish is the developer implementing remoting in .Net. He is the definitive authority on remoting related issues.

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.

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