Junfeng Zhang's Windows Programming Notes

I have seen the same question asked many times. “I changed app.config while the application is running. But the application does not read the change, unless I restart the application. What should I do?” .Net framework will read the app.config once, and...

In .Net framework Assembly is the minimum unit of deployment. You cannot deploy anything less than an assembly. To CLR, a type does not exist outside of the context of an assembly. Assembly can contain one or more files . The files can be any physical...

It is common to share an assembly between several applications. Typically you will install the assembly to GAC. When you want to service the assembly, you create a publisher policy assembly, and install the publisher policy assembly to GAC. All...

By now we know assemblies compiled with .Net 2.0 will have ProcessorArchitecture . And we know from Josh's blog , that applications with processorArchitecture MSIL will run as 64 bit processes on 64 bit OS. And of course they will run as 32 bit...

Alan has an excellent article on how HTTP assembly download works. http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/alanshi/commentview.aspx/d3b8c7d9-b0c6-47fd-8ddf-20db971ba80d In this article he talked about download cache as well as fusion's interaction with Internet Explorer...

In .Net framework 2.0, AppDomain.AppendPrivatePath is marked as obsolete. The deprecation is explained in Gotdotnet.com's break change web site http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/changeinfo/Backwards1.1to2.0/default.aspx#00000102 <quote> Title Cache...

Mike Stall talks about “ Don’t do complicated work in Release() ”. He has a sample implementation for IUnkown::Release(). <quote> An object’s destructor has the same caveats if Release() is often implemented as: InterlockedDecrement(&m_ref)...

MSDN magazine just posted a great article about NGEN, written by Reid Wilkes. It is a wonderful read if you want to know how NGEN works, and how to use NGEN. The article is here: NGen Revs Up Your Performance with Powerful New Features http://msdn.microsoft...

If there are multiple (conflicting) policy statements for the same assembly in a config file, which policy will fusion take? In .Net v1.0/v1.1, we will take the first policy. The rest policies are practically no-op. In .Net 2.0, we will preserve the same...