This is an internal email from a CLR Developer. I recorded it here just to share the information. I do not work in that area and I can't answer any question. From: Sent: To: Subject: The Whidbey RTM implementation of Thread.GetData/Thread.SetData...

In .Net framework, CLR will not raise AssemblyResolve event for missing satellite assemblies (to be precise, Resource Manager asks CLR loader to not raise AssemblyResolve event if it can’t find a satellite assembly.). The reason is that Resource Manager...

When an assembly load is request, the assembly that requests the assembly load is called Parent Assembly Hint....

Assembly loading failure is expensive...

Publisher Policy --- Highest version, which highest?...

ReflectionOnlyAssemblyResolve event is raised only for dependencies....

What is DEVPATH, when to use it....

We have an interesting discussion a little while ago in internal discussion. The scenario goes like this: 1. Install .Net framework 2.0 2. Install Product A(which uses CLR), which installs a bunch of assemblies to GAC. 3. Install Application B ...

Run MSIL applications as 32 bit in 64 bit OS....

When you debug a Win32 application, by default the debugger will stop after ntdll finishes initializing the application. (Initialization includes not not limited to loading the static dependencies of the applications and running the DllMain of those dlls...