April 2005 - Posts

• These specs are harder to find on the web than I thought

  Someone recently wrote me, asking for the old CodeView format. I told him that it was readily available on the web. He subsequently wrote back and said he couldn't find them. So, using both MSN Search and Google, I dug around and was able to find the Read More... Posted Thursday, April 14, 2005 11:41 AM by Matt Pietrek | 2 Comments

• Help tracking down Win32 SxS manifest issues

  Today I had my first experience with using manifest files for Win32 binaries. If you're only familiar with .NET manifest, never fear, as Windows itself uses essentially the same mechanisms. In my particular case, I wanted to ensure that a DLL I wrote Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:57 PM by Matt Pietrek | 4 Comments

• Diagnosing DBGHELP symbol loading

  I've had a love/hate relationship with DBGHELP.DLL for a long time, as reader of my MSDN column well knew. I love what DBGHELP does, but I hate when my calls to it fail and I have no clue why. One of the cool things about working at Microsoft is the ability Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 12, 2005 5:44 PM by Matt Pietrek | 1 Comments

• My new toy

  I was at the company store yesterday, and noticed the new Microsoft Fingerprint Reader , which was cheap enough to be an impulse buy. Then I noticed the wireless mouse/reader combo for not much more, and went with that instead. It was time for me to get Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:45 AM by Matt Pietrek | 3 Comments