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Junfeng Zhang's Windows Programming Notes

RT_MANIFEST resource, and ISOLATION_AWARE_ENABLED

Posted over 5 years ago

by Junfeng Zhang
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RT_MANIFEST Since Windows XP, Windows reserves a new type of resource RT_MANIFEST for SxS manifests. Within the RT_MANIFEST resource, Windows reserves ID 1-16. A binary cannot have two IDs of resource type RT_MANIFEST within 1-16. Windows will refuse...
Junfeng Zhang's Windows Programming Notes

Diagnose SideBySide failures in Windows XP/Windows Server 2003

Posted over 5 years ago

by Junfeng Zhang
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Since I published my article on how to diagnose SideBySide failures , I have received many feedbacks that since Sxstrace is not available in Windows XP/Windows Server 2003, it is hard to figure out what is wrong in Windows XP/Windows Server 2003. This...
Junfeng Zhang's Windows Programming Notes

Activation Context Creation flow

Posted over 5 years ago

by Junfeng Zhang
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The following describes how activation context is created currently in Windows XP/Windows Server 2003/Windows Vista. 1. CreateProcess/CreateActCtx is called. 2. CreateProcess/CreateActCtx does some validation, constructs a message, sends the message to...