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Chris Jackson's Semantic Consonance

Windows Application Compatibility in the Real World

November 2007 - Posts

Converting Shim Database Files to XML, and the Sdb* APIs
This was brought to my attention by a recent acquaintance : heaths dropped some bits on his blog that will dump the contents of an arbitrary shim database (including the system shim database) into an XML file for parsing and manipulation. I think this Read More...
Managing Shims in the Enterprise
I've been talking a lot about shims lately here, but it's been rather lopsidedly technical. Using shims can be extremely helpful in mitigating application compatibility issues and unblocking deployments of Windows Vista. However, there are a few obstacles Read More...
Announcing the Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0.2
We have released a new version of the Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0 . Internally we refer to it as the 5.0.2 release, although the actual version number isn't 5.0.2, it's 5.0.5428.1056. (I still haven't fully grasped all of the inputs that drive Read More...
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