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Monday, December 14, 2009 12:03 PM

Tales of Application Compatibility Weirdness – Demystifying UAC Virtualization

We had a customer in the lab recently and they were quite certain their application was Windows 7 ready. To their surprise, it had several issues in certain situations.  In this post, I’ll talk about one of the situations they encountered as well
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009 8:12 PM

Answers to Several Application Manifest Mysteries and Questions

Recently, someone asked me this question in e-mail -- “How do I get my application to run elevated when someone launches it?” Instinctively, I responded with a “You need to manifest it.” I got a nice long e-mail in return. ;-) I quickly realized that
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Monday, October 05, 2009 11:18 AM

Windows 7 Application Compatibility Testing Guidance document

If you have an existing application, you may be wondering if it’s going to work on Windows 7.  If it works on Vista, you have a good shot at it working on Windows 7. As a developer or a tester, you may be wondering if you have tested your application
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:39 AM

Displaying the UAC consent dialog on the desktop

I had written a draft of this post a while ago (last year).  I use Live Writer as my blog editor.  Between Live Writer and Intellimirror ,this draft has survived multiple reloads of interim builds of Windows 7.  So, I think in some ways,
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:29 AM

Developing Compatible Applications for Windows 7 webcast

I know I could talk all day about application compatibility topics and not cover everything that can be discussed. Here’s a one hour webcast I did that focuses on the top issues and most confusing topics for Application Compatibility. I do some of my
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:08 AM

Where do I start?

When you work on a given subject for a while, you tend to jump right in and forget to start at the beginning. In the Application Compatibility lab, we kick off the week with an overview presentation and cover the basics of common compatibility issues.
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