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Local dump collection in Windows Server 2008 and Vista Service Pack 1
Here is a neat new feature added to Windows Error Reporting (WER) in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 - you can now have WER generate and keep full user mode dumps of crashing applications . HTH Doug Read More...
Does DEP/NX affect web applications?
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 Read More...
Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate
Developers interested in preparing for IIS7 and Orcas will be interested to know that the Release Candidate (RC) build of Windows Server 2008 is now available . Of course, this release includes an updated version of the .NET Framework 3.5. The core 2.0 Read More...
Time to be a grumpy old man...
Here goes - I don't like the copy replace dialog in Windows Server 2008. It's too big, there's too much detail and the things you are meant to click to do something are not obviously clickable until you hover the mouse over them. Hmm. Looking at this Read More...
Vista Performance article
Came across this interesting article about measuring performance on Windows Vista . Contains various nuggets of information about what goes on under the covers. Doug Read More...
LogParser, event logs and Longhorn Server
I am a frequent user of LogParser and when I recently started using Windows Server 2008 beta as my desktop OS I ran into a problem with it. One of the things I use LogParser for is extracting the information I need from my customers' event logs which Read More...
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