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My job involves a wide variety of stuff, from investigation, debugging, diagnosing and solving of specific customer problems through passing on product feedback and bug reports to product groups and mentoring other support engineers on their cases to
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[Note: September 2009 I am in the process of trying to bring this list up to date. It may not be complete] There is nothing worse than wrestling with a problem for ages only to discover later that there is already a fix for it. I therefore felt it would
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Ever seen this error in a WinDBG/CDB debug session? Failed to load data access DLL, 0x80004005 Verify that 1) you have a recent build of the debugger (6.2.14 or newer) 2) the file mscordacwks.dll
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I wrote previously about fixes that are available for three issues that can occur when you install SP1 for .NET Framework 3.5. In addition to those three CLR issues, there were some other problems caused by the service pack which is why we also released
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The Microsoft .NET Framework product group have been busy making it easier to find out about and install the latest version of the .NET Framework... a simple URL and a clean UI at http://www.microsoft.com/net/ It's certainly easy to remember. And
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The US NSA have a free, unclassified, 300 page, very useful looking document about .NET Framework 2.0 Security: http://www.nsa.gov/snac/app/I731-008R-2006.pdf HTH Doug
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This sounds like a good deal. Free? Free? Sounds to good to be true :-). But it is. If you are a full time student and into software development, take a look: https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/Overview.aspx Check the site for details, but at time of
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You may have a need to uninstall .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, perhaps for testing purposes or because you find it causes you some specific issue with an application you have. If this is the case, it's important to realise that when you install .NET Framework
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A while a go when I posted about the .NET Framework 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 being available for download, Kima posed an interesting question in the comments. Kima asked whether the new enforcement of NX compatability by the C# compiler after the application of
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This is a number that is going to become very familiar to me over the coming months and probably years. It'll join a hall of fame, along with 42, 832, 2032, 288,6018. Why? Is it my ATM pin? My new car registration? No, neither of these. It is in fact
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An interesting point about the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 is that it is both a service pack AND a full install. By that I mean if you already have .NET 2.0 installed then it gets updated. If you haven't, it doesn't matter, it gets installed anyway. The "service
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[update 8/10/9 added Windows 7 versions and the post-3.5 SP1 app compat update] [update 5/11/8 added .NET 3.5 SP1, various hotfixes and additional note about "what is the CLR"] [update 20/11/7 added .NET 2.0 SP1] [update 15/11/7 added 4 new recent fixes]
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I'm often asked "Where can I learn more about doing this kind of stuff?", this "stuff" being debugging with WinDBG, understanding how .NET works, looking at dump files and generally figuring out what's gone wrong with .NET applications. I started assembling
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