Junfeng Zhang's Windows Programming Notes

In .Net framework v1.0/v1.1, when an assembly is installed to GAC, we will generate a file __AssemblyInfo__.ini in the assembly's directory. The file contains some information about the assembly. An example of the file is below: C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC...

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URL is case sensitive. In Windows file names are case insensitive. When these two meet, you can sense some inconsistence here. When an http assembly is requested, it has to be copied into download cache, before it is returned to you. Download cache is...

This question is asked in our internal discussion list. One of the kernel developer answered the question below: <quote> LoadLibrary(AlreadyLoadedModule) has to increment the reference count of AlreadyLoadedModule, plus all of that module's dependencies...

A URL is a string used to locate a resource in the Internet. Raw URLs are simply sequences of (Unicode) characters. For example, URL http://server/dir/%file.htm represent a file called “%file.htm” in the virtual directory “dir” of an http server “server...

In .Net framework 1.0 and 1.1, fusion is not able to download assemblies hosted in web servers with http compression enabled. This is a bug in fusion, and it has been fixed in .Net framework 2.0. We may backport the fix to 1.0 and 1.1, depending on the...