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• P/Invoke Marshal.StructuretoPtr

  In this blog I am going to talk about Marshal.StructuretoPtr , especially its last parameter fDeleteOld. Although its msdn description is pretty concise but I have seen it to be a source of confusion a lot of times. Following is what it says: fDeleteOld Read More... Posted Monday, November 02, 2009 7:50 AM by mjawa | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET Troubleshooting, PInvoke

• .NET-BroadcastEventWindow causing BOOTUP_EXCEPTION_COMPLUS during application shutdown

  This is one of the interesting scenario in which an unmanaged application built with Non-Microsoft technology was crashing during application shutdown with BOOTUP_EXCEPTION_COMPLUS exception (c0020001). This unmanaged application happened to be using Read More... Posted Sunday, September 20, 2009 3:13 AM by chancha | 2 Comments Filed under: CRT, .NET Troubleshooting

• Porting C++ native code to managed (/clr) - Threads

  In native world, one interacts with OS directly by calling Win32 APIs for managing resources (like allocating/deallocating memory,opening/closing handles). In managed world one relies on CLR totally or at times partially for doing the same( eg GC does Read More... Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 1:44 PM by mjawa | 1 Comments Filed under: VC++, .NET Troubleshooting, GC

• A chalktalk on .NET troubleshooting at Vitual Tech Days

  This was my yet another venture with Microsoft Evangelism team. I was invited as the Speaker on .NET troubleshooting in the chalktalk session where developers all across logged in to the live meeting and threw a lot of questions on me. The DPE team recorded Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:19 PM by chancha | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET Troubleshooting

• The developer's toolkit for .NET: Part II: Cold Startup time

  2. Application slow to load: Scenario : “Our application takes too long to load for the first time. It exhibits the same behavior once in a while…” To go ahead and analyze this scenario, we need to understand as to what happens when the application is Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:36 PM by chancha | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET Troubleshooting

• The developer's toolkit for .NET: Part I : FileNotFoundException

  Recently I had been to couple of places on behalf of Microsoft DPE (Developer & Platform Evangelism) group as part of their new initiative Innovation Day to talk about The developer's toolkit for .NET . It was an exciting experience and it was little Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 7:58 PM by chancha | 0 Comments Filed under: fusion, .NET Troubleshooting

• X86,x64,IA64,Any CPU

  When a managed application is built on Visual Studio , we get four options to choose for a platform .Lets discuss these options in detail . 1)x86 X86 is the generic name for all Intel x86 32 bit architectures. If you build your application using x86 switch Read More... Posted Saturday, June 28, 2008 1:24 AM by mjawa | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET Troubleshooting