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If you debug .NET a lot you need to know what is going on inside a .NET application. I came across a great article about .NET Type internals that is very useful. 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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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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Back in October I blogged about what's new in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. I also talked about 3 problems that affect the CLR that can result when you install the service pack. Up until this point you'd have had to call Microsoft Customer Service and Support
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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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Following the earlier news about Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipping, various .NET Framework updates and releases are now available for download: .NET Framework 3.5 (available as a web install or a downloadable full package ) .NET Framework
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Looks like we may all be needing that training kit I blogged about earlier . Soma has just announced that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped! I think we can expect lots more download links to go live in the coming hours and days and plenty
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Today we have released the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit This 123Mb download is packed with 28 PowerPoint presentations, 20 demos and 20 labs. Good stuff DPE team! Cheers Doug
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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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