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June 2007 - Posts

RT_MANIFEST resource, and ISOLATION_AWARE_ENABLED

RT_MANIFEST Since Windows XP, Windows reserves a new type of resource RT_MANIFEST for SxS manifests. Within the RT_MANIFEST resource, Windows reserves ID 1-16. A binary cannot have two IDs of resource type RT_MANIFEST within 1-16. Windows will refuse
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Diagnose SideBySide failures in Windows XP/Windows Server 2003

Since I published my article on how to diagnose SideBySide failures , I have received many feedbacks that since Sxstrace is not available in Windows XP/Windows Server 2003, it is hard to figure out what is wrong in Windows XP/Windows Server 2003. This
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Activation Context Creation flow

The following describes how activation context is created currently in Windows XP/Windows Server 2003/Windows Vista. 1. CreateProcess/CreateActCtx is called. 2. CreateProcess/CreateActCtx does some validation, constructs a message, sends the message to
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