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

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October 2008 - Posts

Why don’t elevated applications receive environment variables set by non-elevated calling process?
I had a conversation with a customer (via email) the other day, and I wanted to to into a bit of detail here explaining what is going on. Essentially, the customer was attempting to pass information to another application while launching it using environment Read More...
Windows Application Compatibility Engagement
I’m apparently going for a record, trying to see if I can spend the entire month of October jet-lagged. So far, so good (just got back from Singapore)… Anyway, I like free stuff as much as far more than the next guy. So, I figured I’d pass this one along Read More...
The Windows SDK Breaks the New TR1 Extensions in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Until you Repair It, That Is)
One of the main uses for my blog is to share those little annoyances that I spend hours or days solving and spare you the “fun” of going through this yourself. So, even though this isn’t really about application compatibility, which has kind of become Read More...
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