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• Some application tries to install continuously (Virtualization)

  [Windows 7 Application Compatibility episode 4] Someone brought me an application, an ActiveX application, oops... not the ActiveX itself but the application that the ActiveX control installs. Well, when the user goes to the web page, the ActiveX checks Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 02, 2009 9:46 AM by nevermet | 0 Comments Filed under: application compatibility, Windows 7

• Some application tries to write files under system32 folder.

  [Windows 7 Application Compatibility episode 3] Someone brought me an application complaining that it fails while installing MSVBVM60.dll... Well, I think this application tries to write this file under System32 folder before running the application, Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:57 PM by nevermet | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, Windows, application compatibility, Windows 7

• Some web pages have larger margin

  [Windows 7 Application Compatibility episode 2] I met customers saying that their pop up window got wider and taller after installing IE7 or IE8. Yes, as for getting taller (larger in height), IE7's window height accounts for the content area only, not Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:32 PM by nevermet | 0 Comments Filed under: IE, application compatibility, Windows 7

• An app runs well with Visual Studio debugger not by itself

  [Windows 7 Application Compatibility episode 1] I've tested an application built for Windows XP on Windows 7 machine. The application failed silently on Windows 7 so I checked event log. There was no hint. So, I downloaded application verifier on the Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 01, 2009 2:47 PM by nevermet | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio, application compatibility, Windows 7

• document.domain can cause invalid argument error in IE8

  One of my customers asked me how to mitigate this IE8's application compatibility issue. Well, when their application tries to execute this code, it failes with 'invalide argument' error: document.domain = somevalue ; Their web application works perfectly Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:02 PM by nevermet | 0 Comments Filed under: IE, Windows, application compatibility

• Application compatibility between IE6 to IE8

  A few days ago, one of my customers asked me to identify their web application's compatibility issue. Actually, the problem was that the 3rd party ActiveX control is not shown in IE8, even though it works perfectly in IE6. Can you guess what prevents Read More... Posted Friday, July 03, 2009 4:10 PM by nevermet | 0 Comments Filed under: IE, application compatibility