My colleague Garrett Serack over at the Microsoft Open Source labs is trying to solve the deployment problem for open source software on Windows. He’s building a new package management system to that effect called CoApp on top of the WinSxS store, along...

Let’s assume the following directory structure: appdir\host.exe plugindir\plugin.dll plugindir\plugindependency.dll plugindir\pluginresource.txt where host.exe explicitly loads plugindir\plugin.dll , which in turn has a static dependency on plugindependency...

Applications developed with Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010 can make use of certain runtime libraries like the C/C++ runtimes, ATL, MFC and OpenMP. Visual Studio 2005 & 2008 runtimes are shipped as Windows Side-by-Side assemblies. Determining whether...

Centrally installed Windows Side-by-Side assemblies are located in the Windows\WinSxS directory. This is called the "Windows Side-by-Side Assembly Cache", a term that mirrors the Global Assembly Cache for managed assemblies. Let’s discuss how...

If you’re in Paris before the end of December, you may want to stop at the Windows 7 Café. It’s filled with rooms describing each aspect of Windows, from multimedia to security to gaming, and large lounges where you can try out the latest computers. Since...

I created this blog several years ago; I think it's high time I wrote a "frist psot!!1!", no? I've worked on a number of teams, but mostly on one technology, Native/Win32 " Side-by-Side assemblies ", also called Fusion, so that's what I'll be documenting...