Jigar Mehta's Blog
Symantec and Microsoft working together on SharePoint Interoperability
Its been quite some time I updated this blog. Have been busy at work, and working on something which...
Author: jigarme Date: 12/13/2010
Removing songs from disk with Rating 1 in SongBird.
Note: This is a simple ‘Week-end adventure’, to make a tedious task into automated, fast and...
Author: jigarme Date: 04/26/2009
Look at the operating system version and SP details from the dump in WinDbg..
This is a very common question, we encounter almost all the times. Just imagine a situation, we have...
Author: jigarme Date: 06/03/2008
How to change value of register when doing live debugging with Windbg?
Windbg has not only registers reading functionality but it can also modify registers when doing live...
Author: jigarme Date: 06/03/2008
Collection of SysInternal Tools
The team has just released a new subdomain that has neat and clean list of all SysInternal Tools,...
Author: jigarme Date: 05/29/2008
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is available!!
I've been using Visual Studio 2008 from few months.. Its really a great improvement over...
Author: jigarme Date: 05/27/2008
What is better way of keeping an eye on last win32 error while debugging?
I have found it necessary many times to keep an eye on last win32 error, while using Win32 APIs in...
Author: jigarme Date: 05/08/2008
How can I check the details about Process Token while debugging in Visual Studio?
Visual Studio 2005 onwards, watch window has got a pseudo register for investigating the details...
Author: jigarme Date: 05/08/2008
CoCreateInstance returns 0x80080005 for Visual Studio 2008 based ATL service??
I just worked with a customer who was facing interesting issue. He was getting 0x80080005 at client...
Author: jigarme Date: 05/07/2008
VC++ Debug C++ Runtime Files..
How many times have you tried to run the debug build of your project on a test machine where you...
Author: jigarme Date: 05/07/2008
COM Interop Sample : Using C# DLL from C++ application
I have found many people who are beginning to learn COM Interop, looking for a sample application...
Author: jigarme Date: 04/28/2008
How to register .NET Assembly for COM Interop ?
Do you want to use your .NET DLL (assembly) from VB6 or C++ application (native code) ? Yes, you can...
Author: jigarme Date: 04/28/2008
Live Mesh Technology Preview Available!
I am very excited to tell that Microsoft announced Live Mesh Technology preview today. Its awesome...
Author: jigarme Date: 04/23/2008
Parallel Computing Initiative..
As a part of Parallel computing initiative at Microsoft, we just released Parallel Extensions to...
Author: jigarme Date: 11/29/2007
Visual Studio 2005 debugging trick..
Just now, I found a trick in Visual Studio 2005 to debug pointers in better way. You can ',n' in...
Author: jigarme Date: 11/20/2007
My component is not listed in DCOMCNFG..
I hear this problem occasionally. Customers have COM/DCOM component on the system registered...
Author: jigarme Date: 11/07/2007
Interesting windbg command-line parameters..
Here is a list of few interesting command-line parameters and their mapping to interactive commands...
Author: jigarme Date: 11/07/2007
How to install windbg for post-mortem debugging..
I was looking for a way to install windbg as postmortem debugger so that everytime any process...
Author: jigarme Date: 11/07/2007
Extracting modules (EXE, DLL, and other binaries) from memory dump..
Yet another debugging challenge. Imagine a situation where you get a memory dump from customer and...
Author: jigarme Date: 11/06/2007
How to debug startup code for a process which is started by some other executable!
Yet another debugging challenge.. The problem is, we want to debug the startup code for an...
Author: jigarme Date: 11/06/2007
Why 32 bit registers are called EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX etc.
This is actually an interesting story, Back in the days when we had 8 bit processors (8 bit...
Author: jigarme Date: 10/30/2007
How to look at value of structure object who is member of Class object while debugging in WinDbg??
Sometimes when you debug applications, it happens that you have got the pointer to class which has...
Author: jigarme Date: 10/28/2007
How to break in WinDbg when particular function returns specific value??
If you are debugging a lot, you might come across a need where you need to put a breakpoint on a...
Author: jigarme Date: 10/28/2007
Looking at commands supported by WinDbg extensions..
If you want to look at commands supported by any windbg extensions, you can follow various ways. You...
Author: jigarme Date: 10/28/2007
How to attach WinDbg to a service?
There are various ways to do this. Find the PID for process that is hosting the service. You can do...
Author: jigarme Date: 10/26/2007
Loading/reloading symbols for just one module..
Many a times it happens that from within a debugging session, we need to load / reload symbols for a...
Author: jigarme Date: 10/25/2007
How to find out what all processes have loaded particular DLL..
I was searching for a way to find all the processes running right now, who has loaded particular...
Author: jigarme Date: 10/25/2007
Thanks Ted Pattison
I have just finished reading "Programming Distributed Applications With COM & Microsoft...
Author: jigarme Date: 10/12/2007
What is AppID??
If you have got chance to work with DCOM /COM+ frequently; you might have come across the term...
Author: jigarme Date: 10/09/2007
VirtualStore in Windows Vista
I was researching on one of the issues for my customer and got to read about this registry key....
Author: jigarme Date: 09/11/2007
Consuming WCF services from COM using C++
Found a very good article about using WCF services from COM client C++ code.....
Author: jigarme Date: 09/07/2007
Release v/s debug mode
I just came across an issue where C# application using COM component works fine with debug build of...
Author: jigarme Date: 08/30/2007
Completed One Year at Microsoft
Yes, I completed One successful year at Microsoft this month. Till now, it has been great journey at...
Author: jigarme Date: 08/06/2007
Microsoft Windows Live got two new features..
My favorite features have come in windows live also.. 1. Windows live Photo gallery (Share photos...
Author: jigarme Date: 06/27/2007
Want to see GAC in its naked view?
For one of my customer's debugging scenario, I was searching for a technique to view the GAC in its...
Author: jigarme Date: 06/19/2007
eScrum 1.0 released..
I have read many things about Scrum project management over here in Microsoft. Almost all projects...
Author: jigarme Date: 06/14/2007
Silverlight screencasts..
Using Silverlight Brushes for Color, Gradient and Video Using the Silverlight Downloader Object...
Author: jigarme Date: 06/13/2007
My technorati profile..
My technorati profile.. Technorati Profile
Author: jigarme Date: 05/23/2007
New MSDN design..
Just noticed that MSDN design has got changed, I liked the new layout.. What about you? Tabbed...
Author: jigarme Date: 05/22/2007
A referral was returned from the server.
I encountered this strange error while playing with a sample to elevate the executable from the...
Author: jigarme Date: 05/22/2007
Getting error - Library not registered
Problem: When loading the type-library (using #import directive or even from oleview.exe), getting...
Author: jigarme Date: 05/16/2007
Commonly used NTOSKRNL.exe function prefix..
I have posted a good piece of handy information...
Author: jigarme Date: 05/13/2007
Test blog.. for social bookmarking..
test bookmarking..
Author: jigarme Date: 05/08/2007
Windows SDK download location..
Customers should get the latest Windows SDK from:...
Author: jigarme Date: 05/08/2007
.NET Framework Configuration Tool
Just now, i was searching for something to set the redirection for .NET assembly. Like, for assembly...
Author: jigarme Date: 05/04/2007
Changes to COM in Windows Vista
The following changes appear in COM in Windows Vista: The COM elevation moniker allows applications...
Author: jigarme Date: 05/03/2007
Enabling .NET studio Windows Service project to work with installutil.exe
I was just trying to create a simple C#.NET windows service with visual studio .NET 2005. After...
Author: jigarme Date: 05/03/2007
Have become MCP now !!
Just gave C# - Windows programming exam today and have cleared with 900 score!! So, now have become...
Author: jigarme Date: 05/02/2007