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How do I dump out a string?

The topic came up a while back on one of our aliases – How can I dump out a string? There are a lot of ways do this in the debugger and there are also debugger extensions that will help out with.  What most people in WinDBG do is us the “du” command Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 5:58 PM by zakramer | 0 Comments
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What does High Performance Mean?

Over my years in PFE and Microsoft as a whole I have worked on some REALLY cool websites and applications that are used around the world and drive a lot of business.  Getting work on these cool projects is one of the main reasons that I love what Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:35 PM by zakramer | 0 Comments
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Passing a Managed Function Pointer to Unmanaged Code

I was working with a customer a while back and they had a situation where they wanted to be able to register a managed callback function with a native API. This is not a big problem and the sample that I extended did this already. The question that arose Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 08, 2009 10:27 PM by zakramer | 0 Comments
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IIS and Hyper-V

The other day the topic came up about best practices with IIS and Hyper-V.  One of our team mates pointed out the following links which are an interesting read: http://www.virtualization.info/2008/05/microsoft-migrates-msdn-and-technet-on.html http://blogs.iis.net/mailant/archive/2008/05/29/technet-msdn-iis7-front-end-servers-running-100-virtualized-using-hyper-v.aspx Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:01 PM by zakramer | 0 Comments
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Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 and 24-bit Color TS Connections

Okay this is a really weird one!  When you install Service Pack 2 on Windows Server 2003 you can no longer connect using MSTSC via Terminal Services (TS)/Remote Desktop(RDP) with a 24-bit color setting.  For the customer I was working with this Read More...
Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 8:13 PM by zakramer | 2 Comments
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Combining NetMon CAP Files

Today I was working on a problem that we thought was network related.  That meant it was time to try out some of those NetMon skills.  NetMon is the Microsoft Network Packet Capture and Analysis tool that is similar to WireShark/ethereal and Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 14, 2009 12:37 AM by zakramer | 0 Comments
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.NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2

I have worked with several customers that want .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 but do not want to either require their customers to install .NET Framework 3.5 w/ SP1 or do not want to do it themselves. Well due to the way it was packaged up until this point that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 6:44 AM by zakramer | 1 Comments
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Windows Error Reporting (WER) Web Service

I have long thought that one of the coolest features of the Windows OS for developers is the Windows Error Reporting infrastructure (with roots in Dr. Watson).  You can have your application upload dumps to the WinQual portal – http://winqual.microsoft.com Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:11 PM by zakramer | 0 Comments
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Best Practice - <GeneratePublisherEvidence> in ASPNET.CONFIG

Best Practice Recommendation Add the following line to your ASPNET.CONFIG or APP.CONFIG file: <?xml version= "1.0" encoding= "utf-8" ?> <configuration> <runtime> <generatePublisherEvidence enabled= "false" Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:23 AM by zakramer | 2 Comments
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Why is my Window Grayed Out?

Starting back in Windows 2000, if I recall correctly, the OS added a feature to try and handle unresponsive windows.  The idea is that if an application hangs we do not want the window that is associated with that application to block other stuff Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:57 AM by zakramer | 1 Comments
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$(SolutionDir) and MSBUILD

A while back I was working with a customer that was moving from doing all of their builds with the devenv command line to using MSBUILD.  However we ran into a hiccup that did not make sense at first.  Basically when they tried to build their Read More...
Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 11:02 PM by zakramer | 1 Comments
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All the Ways to Capture a Dump...

Frequently when troubleshooting a problem we capture a memory dump.  Memory dumps are a great tool because they are a complete snapshot of what a process is doing at the time the dump is captured.  It can be a great forensic tool.  There Read More...
Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 12:06 AM by zakramer | 1 Comments
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ASP.NET and Unit Tests

I was onsite the other day and the customer wanted to use Visual Studio 2005 to auto generate the Unit Test stubs for their ASP.NET application.  They have a lot of rules tied up in the ASP.NET application project.  When we tried to generate Read More...
Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 4:01 AM by pfedevblog | 1 Comments
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Welcome...

Just a quick note about the team that is doing the blogging! We are a group of engineers that do onsite support of Microsoft customers that are developing applications (internal to their company and ones that are shipped externally) that are based on Read More...
Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 3:53 AM by pfedevblog | 1 Comments
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