Junfeng Zhang's Windows Programming Notes

I set the comment limit to 90 days. As a result, the original post for questions and suggestions has expired. This one is just to re-enable that. Please post any questions or suggestions in this blog. Questions and suggestions should related to...

I keep getting emails from folks. Most of the time, the questions folks asked are interesting to general audience. Some times I will have a new blog post to answer the question. But often I just hit reply, and missed the chance to share it with everyone...

Assembly Identity --- ReferenceIdentity and DefinitionIdentity, Comparison and Transformation...

You don't need to strongly name EXEs. When you strongly name an assembly, you want this assembly to be shared by multiple applications. But you typically don't share applications between applications. An EXE usually is considered as an application...

Compare Fusion/CLR and SxS...

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars This is really a fine piece of review. I haven't read much about Mac OS X from a developer's prospective. From the review, Apple is doing some real good fundation work.

You know when we probe an assembly foo, we first probe the appbase for foo.dll/exe, then appbase\foo\foo.dll/exe. The reason we probe for appbase\foo\foo.dll, is for multi-module assembiles. Say you have assemblies foo1 and foo2. Both have a module...

Blogs.msdn.com is migrated to Community Server v1.0. As part of the migration, I changed my theme. I hope it is more readable. The comment limit day is set to 90 days. Thanks for reading my blog.

If you do not know what is platform specific assemblies, please read this post: Assembly ProcessorArchitecture http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2004/08/11/212555.aspx Assume your platform specific assemblies will be shipped both in 32 bit and...