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Tuesday, November 23, 2004 2:01 AM

Framework Unification Policy Change in .Net framework 2.0

Alan discussed Unification Policy in detail in his blog. Unification Policy http://blogs.msdn.com/alanshi/archive/2004/02/15/73244.aspx Unification Policy is first introduced in v1.1. The unification policy's behavior is to move every assembly reference
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Thursday, November 18, 2004 11:03 PM

CLR in Channel 9

Channel9 team did a two part interview for CLR team. The video is online at channel9.msdn.com. Jason Zander - Tour of the .NET CLR team http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=29506 The .NET CLR Team Tour, Part II http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=29705
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Thursday, November 18, 2004 10:47 PM

Creating a publisher policy

MSDN documented how to create a publisher policy http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcreatingpublisherpolicyfile.asp Basically you run al.exe with the "/link" option. The generated publisher policy assembly
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Tuesday, November 16, 2004 1:10 AM

Less is more

Brad Abrams reports four less dlls loaded in Whidbey than in Everett for his helloworld application. *VERY* poor man's profiler The four dlls are: D:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\fusion.dll D:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\mscorsn.dll
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Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:48 AM

System.EnterpriseSe#?

If you are brave enough to look at Whidbey's native image cache, you will see some odd directories ended with '#'. C:\WINDOWS\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.40607_32>dir *# Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 685B-4400 Directory of
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Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:16 AM

Codebase hint in config files

If your assemblies cannot be found by the standard fusion probing logic , you have two options: 1. Hook up AssemblyResolve event. 2. Specify a codebase hint in config files. The syntax for specifying codebase hint in a config file is in MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/gngrfCodeBase.asp
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Thursday, November 11, 2004 5:08 PM

Mscorlib.ni.dll

If you are using Whidbey, you may notice a dll named mscorlib.ni.dll is loaded in every managed application. It is the native image of mscorlib.dll. Makes perfect sense, right? Except in v1.0/v1.1, mscorlib's native image is still mscorlib.dll. So why
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Saturday, November 06, 2004 2:05 PM

You don't want to initialize global variables

** This is not a .Net blog ** According to C-FAQs, global variables are guaranteed to start out as zero. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/C-faq/faq/index.html 1.30: What am I allowed to assume about the initial values of variables which are not explicitly initialized?
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Friday, November 05, 2004 10:36 PM

Single Servicing

What is Single Servicing? Single Servicing is that when you fix a bug in your component, you drop a single binary with the fix into customer's machine, everyone using your component automatically get the fix. Sounds easy. But in reality it is much harder.
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Thursday, November 04, 2004 10:58 AM

Programming Legends Debate .Net, J2EE

Interesting read from eweek.com Programming Legends Debate .Net, J2EE http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1699480,00.asp Source: http://www.theserverside.net http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=29747
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Wednesday, November 03, 2004 5:57 PM

Assembly.LoadFrom/LoadFile/Load(byte[]) prefers GAC

Starting in Whidbey beta2, for Assembly.LoadFrom/LoadFile/Load(byte[]) , if there is an assembly in GAC with exactly the same assembly identity, we will return the one in GAC. ReflectionOnlyLoad and ReflectionOnlyLoadFrom APIs are not affected. C:\>more
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Tuesday, November 02, 2004 2:28 PM

Windows XP Look & Feel with manifest

Windows XP has a new Common Controls library comctl32.dll version 6, which implements XP's look & feel. comctl32.dll version 6 is a side by side assembly deployed to %windir%\WinSxs (the equavalent of GAC in Fusion/Win32). For compatibility reason,
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