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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:17 PM

Fuslogvw on Windows Vista

Due to changes in Windows Vista, you can't change logging setting in Vista using fuslogvw.exe by default. You can change the settings in the UI but the settings won't take effect. To workaround the problem, run fuslogvw.exe elevated (Run as administrator).
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:02 PM

URL Case Sensitivity, Again

I discussed URL sensitivity issue back in March 2005 ( http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2005/03/20/399418.aspx ). In that post, I mentioned fusion probes assemblies with the extension capitalized (For example, http://foo/bar.DLL , instead of http://foo/bar.dll
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Monday, February 20, 2006 9:05 PM

Debugging mysterious application crash

Today I was asked to help investigating why an application mysteriously crashes. The symptom is very interesting. First, navigate to a directory with close to 128 characters long. In that directory, any managed WinForm application will fail to launch,
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:35 PM

A few things about uninstall files

I was debugging a file uninstall problem today and I discovered some problem. Here are some tips to share. (Background: in Windows you can't delete a file when the file is in use. So a common workaround is to move the file to a temporary location, and
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:11 PM

Locally Unique ID

Sometimes you need a locally unique identifier. For example, you may want to create a temporary file but there may have may instances of your code running, and you don't want any of them to conflict on the file name. You can try with a random file name,
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