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To help .NET developers target Window 7 features we’ve released the Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework . Looks like there is a lot of stuff in there! HTH Doug
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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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Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) among other things exposes to WMI clients performance counters that are present on a system . This is useful because it makes performance counter data accessible to script based clients. It also offers a better
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One of the cases I've been working on recently is for an issue introduced by Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. The fix has now been finalised and released on the MSDN Code Gallery . When you get this error the symptoms are like this:
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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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In mid January the first release of the .NET Framework 3.5 reference sources occurred. In mid February there was a minor update because Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 come with a slightly later build of the framework. Also in February Kerem Kusmezer
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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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As mentioned yesterday .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 were released. Here is a more extensive set of links that may be useful: Soma's announcement mail with some brief details of the release Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack
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Now available: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe) ( readme ) Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (web installer) ( release notes ) Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (full package) ( release notes ) These are important
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As ever, Scott Guthrie has the most comprehensive announcement blog about Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta but this is no ordinary service pack, this is a service pack packed [sic] with new features as well as fixes. For instance,
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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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