I read about MSPDBSRV.exe the other day for one of my cases. I found it interesting and thought of sharing it with you. Here is how things work. The Visual Studio uses MSPDBSRV.exe to generate the symbols (PDB files). All the requests related to...

Hi there! Recently I remembered that I had an MSDN blog also which I haven't updated since ages! Let me add an interesting issue which I saw recently: The following code results in different output when built and run from Visual Studio 2003 and Visual...

Hey Folks, my team at Microsoft (Developer Support VC++ & C#) has come up with a blog. It will mostly have posts related to issues faced by developers and the troubleshooting steps or methods to analyze and resolve those . Check this out: http...

Hi Guys! It has been a while since I wrote my last post. I had been very busy last month with all the cases flowing in. Recently I worked on a very tricky issue related to OutOfMemoryException. This blog is about that case. How to reproduce OutOfMemoryException...

Here comes the second (and last) part of my LINQ presentation. Please check the attachment file. (LINQ - 2.pptx).

Hey friends, I have attched part-one of my LINQ presentation (LINQ-1.pptx) here. LINQ is one of the cool new features in .NET framework 3.5. It allows us to do type-safe query of relational database, XML file and even in-memory tables. In more general...

ISSUE: I am back with another mixed-mode situation. An issue may happen when the native class constructor calls a managed function. For example, Let us say we have a C# application which is calling a C++ DLL using DLL Import attribute. The C++ DLL...

A few definitions to start with: Managed code : Code executing under the control of the CLR is called managed code. For example, any code written in C# or Visual Basic .NET is managed code. Unmanaged code : Code that runs outside the CLR is referred...