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I was reading through some documentation on Sysinternals Process Explorer the other day, and one bit that caught my attention was some detail on the .NET tab. So, I pulled up my trusty managed StockViewer application, and went to go and look at that tab.
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Since I’m using Mark’s tools, I figure I may as well steal his blog title scheme… I had a customer come to me with a question on Standard User Analyzer (SUA), looking for an explanation for why it was coming back with the following error: Failed to load
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If you come to me for advice about how to become a debugger, chances are that I’m going to give you a couple of must-read reference books, an then tell you to start paying attention. Because, unless you’re drastically more lucky than I am, stuff is probably
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I send out a lot of links to my articles in response to questions that come up, but the other day I had a chance to use a pile of them to solve a fairly complicated problem end to end. So, I figured I'd share how we can piece together all of this knowledge
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Last week, I was at TechEd 2008: IT Professionals in Orlando, FL. (More on that later.) I had the opportunity to talk to lots of people, and it is always a great learning experience for me. Along the way, I even had a chance to solve an application compatibility
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...but I fixed it. And I thought you might like to know how to fix it if you run into the issue. So first, the problem. I was trying to launch IECTT and found this MessageBox: --------------------------- Test Tool Error --------------------------- The
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I've been talking at a bit of a higher level lately, and today I'm just in the mood to go into some of the deeper debugging aspect that you may run across when looking at Windows Vista application compatibility. (Well, perhaps not deep to some, but for
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A couple of weeks ago, I had a chance to sit down with Gov Maharaj (whose name rhymes with Orange), a developer in the Windows Fundamentals Dev team, and chat about debugging and mitigating application compatibility issues. You can view our discussion
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So, the other day I was investigating a visual issue in an application. On Windows 2000, the background of the form was white. On Windows Vista, in Windows Classic mode, the background of the form was white. But, for whatever reason, in either Windows
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Yesterday, a friend asked for some assistance debugging an issue with Windows Installer. It was one of those situations where you've looked at the problem so closely, so many times, that you just needed another set of eyes. (They're close to shipping,
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When I work with folks who are either new to debugging, or else want to sharpen up their chops (perhaps they have gotten rusty by not having to do so for a long time), one of the things I tell them to do is to watch out for things that don't do what you
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