Jigar Mehta's Blog
Its been quite some time I updated this blog. Have been busy at work, and working on something which...
Date: 12/13/2010
Note: This is a simple ‘Week-end adventure’, to make a tedious task into automated, fast and...
Date: 04/26/2009
This is a very common question, we encounter almost all the times. Just imagine a situation, we have...
Date: 06/03/2008
Windbg has not only registers reading functionality but it can also modify registers when doing live...
Date: 06/03/2008
The team has just released a new subdomain that has neat and clean list of all SysInternal Tools,...
Date: 05/29/2008
I've been using Visual Studio 2008 from few months.. Its really a great improvement over...
Date: 05/27/2008
I have found it necessary many times to keep an eye on last win32 error, while using Win32 APIs in...
Date: 05/08/2008
Visual Studio 2005 onwards, watch window has got a pseudo register for investigating the details...
Date: 05/08/2008
I just worked with a customer who was facing interesting issue. He was getting 0x80080005 at client...
Date: 05/07/2008
How many times have you tried to run the debug build of your project on a test machine where you...
Date: 05/07/2008
I have found many people who are beginning to learn COM Interop, looking for a sample application...
Date: 04/28/2008
Do you want to use your .NET DLL (assembly) from VB6 or C++ application (native code) ? Yes, you can...
Date: 04/28/2008
I am very excited to tell that Microsoft announced Live Mesh Technology preview today. Its awesome...
Date: 04/23/2008
As a part of Parallel computing initiative at Microsoft, we just released Parallel Extensions to...
Date: 11/29/2007
Just now, I found a trick in Visual Studio 2005 to debug pointers in better way. You can ',n' in...
Date: 11/20/2007
I hear this problem occasionally. Customers have COM/DCOM component on the system registered...
Date: 11/07/2007
Here is a list of few interesting command-line parameters and their mapping to interactive commands...
Date: 11/07/2007
I was looking for a way to install windbg as postmortem debugger so that everytime any process...
Date: 11/07/2007
Yet another debugging challenge. Imagine a situation where you get a memory dump from customer and...
Date: 11/06/2007
Yet another debugging challenge.. The problem is, we want to debug the startup code for an...
Date: 11/06/2007
This is actually an interesting story, Back in the days when we had 8 bit processors (8 bit...
Date: 10/30/2007
Sometimes when you debug applications, it happens that you have got the pointer to class which has...
Date: 10/28/2007
If you are debugging a lot, you might come across a need where you need to put a breakpoint on a...
Date: 10/28/2007
If you want to look at commands supported by any windbg extensions, you can follow various ways. You...
Date: 10/28/2007
There are various ways to do this. Find the PID for process that is hosting the service. You can do...
Date: 10/26/2007
Many a times it happens that from within a debugging session, we need to load / reload symbols for a...
Date: 10/25/2007
I was searching for a way to find all the processes running right now, who has loaded particular...
Date: 10/25/2007
I have just finished reading "Programming Distributed Applications With COM & Microsoft...
Date: 10/12/2007
If you have got chance to work with DCOM /COM+ frequently; you might have come across the term...
Date: 10/09/2007
I was researching on one of the issues for my customer and got to read about this registry key....
Date: 09/11/2007
Found a very good article about using WCF services from COM client C++ code.....
Date: 09/07/2007
I just came across an issue where C# application using COM component works fine with debug build of...
Date: 08/30/2007
Yes, I completed One successful year at Microsoft this month. Till now, it has been great journey at...
Date: 08/06/2007
My favorite features have come in windows live also.. 1. Windows live Photo gallery (Share photos...
Date: 06/27/2007
For one of my customer's debugging scenario, I was searching for a technique to view the GAC in its...
Date: 06/19/2007
I have read many things about Scrum project management over here in Microsoft. Almost all projects...
Date: 06/14/2007
Using Silverlight Brushes for Color, Gradient and Video Using the Silverlight Downloader Object...
Date: 06/13/2007
My technorati profile.. Technorati Profile
Date: 05/23/2007
Just noticed that MSDN design has got changed, I liked the new layout.. What about you? Tabbed...
Date: 05/22/2007
I encountered this strange error while playing with a sample to elevate the executable from the...
Date: 05/22/2007
Problem: When loading the type-library (using #import directive or even from oleview.exe), getting...
Date: 05/16/2007
I have posted a good piece of handy information...
Date: 05/13/2007
test bookmarking..
Date: 05/08/2007
Customers should get the latest Windows SDK from:...
Date: 05/08/2007
Just now, i was searching for something to set the redirection for .NET assembly. Like, for assembly...
Date: 05/04/2007
The following changes appear in COM in Windows Vista: The COM elevation moniker allows applications...
Date: 05/03/2007
I was just trying to create a simple C#.NET windows service with visual studio .NET 2005. After...
Date: 05/03/2007
Just gave C# - Windows programming exam today and have cleared with 900 score!! So, now have become...
Date: 05/02/2007