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  • Chris Jackson is an Architect and the Technical Lead for the Windows Application Experience SWAT Team.

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September 2008 - Posts

CorrectFilePaths Has to Point to a Directory Which Exists
A question came up via comments. (I was going to say that it came up recently, but another glance reveals that it came up in, oh, June. I don’t think I can fairly call that recent…) “…the fix seems only to work if the directory structure exists…” This Read More...
CompatAdmin How Do I Shim Thee? Let Me Count The Ways...
When you come across issues debugging applications, there are typically several ways to solve them. Today, I'm going to pick on our own stuff and throw a few different shims at it. Interestingly enough, what I'm going to be shimming up will be the tool Read More...
10 Minute Demos of Windows Vista Deployment Topics
I haven't seen these pop up yet - if you're looking for a quick demo of several of the tools available to assist in a Windows Vista deployment, you may enjoy the following 10 minute demos: http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/6/9/D6943262-EF5A-4733-8247-9BF7A6FEF299/Application_Compatibility_Demo.wmv Read More...
The Windows Vista Compatibility Center
It's been a couple of months since we released the Windows Vista Compatibility Center , and while I meant to discuss it at the time, it's still worth a little chat. I talk quite a bit about the tools to test for application compatibility, sharing debugging Read More...
Announcing ACT 5.0.3 (a.k.a. ACT 5.0.5428.1080)
It seems like just yesterday I was posting about ACT 5.0.2 being released, but we just released ACT 5.0.3 . Now, I've had a couple of people confused about the version numbers we talk about, and what they actually see. For, rather unfortunately, you didn't Read More...
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