Junfeng Zhang's Windows Programming Notes

You can create symbolic link in Windows Vista now. C:\test>ver Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.5365] C:\test>mklink Creates a symbolic link. MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target /D Creates a directory symbolic link. Default is a...

PhilW believes that SxS COM with manifest is one of those “well kept secrets” that should be more well known. As the current maintainer of Windows SxS, I am absolutely thrilled to hear that. That said, I have to admit that it is not the easiest...

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...

COM is easily one of the most commonly used technologies in Microsoft Windows Platform. Many of Microsoft Windows’ capabilities are only exposed in COM. I do not claim to be a COM expert. But my work in Microsoft in the past and now do affect how people...

NTFS supports the concept of File Stream . Not many applications support NTFS file stream though. In Vista. dir now can display NTFS file stream (where it calls it " Alternate Data Stream "). E:\demo>ver Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.5370...

Sxs’ runtime behavior is built on top of the concept of Activation Context. (For more details on Activation Context, please visit MSDN . I have published an article on it early.) You can use API CreateActCtx to create an activation context. CreateActCtx...

One of the most common Deny Of Service (DOS) attack in Windows is kernel object name squatting . For example, two processes want to access some shared resources. In order to keep the integrality of the shared resources, the two processes will cooperate...

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If there are multiple foo.dll loaded (from different paths), LoadLibrary(“foo.dll”) will return the first foo.dll was loaded. This is documented in MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/loadlibrary.asp...

The classic thread synchronization objects are Mutex, Semaphore, and Condition Variable. Windows always has Mutex and Semaphore. Now in Windows Vista, you can also use Condition Variable. Using Condition Variables http://msdn.microsoft.com/library...

Surupa Biswas publishes an article on NGEN in MSDN Magazine. It discusses many aspects on how to make the best use of NGEN. Check it out. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/05/CLRInsideOut/ (Surupa is the Program Manager for CLR NGEN...

See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;915430&sd=rss&spid=8291 for more detail. The other problem reported by Isaac http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2005/12/13/503059.aspx#546000 [b] If you add the section...