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Creating non-user specific printer mappings

I was delivering a PowerShell class, and the question of how to create a remote printer mapping came up. Turns out that enterprise administrators may have the need to help users with their printer connections, setting them up for them. As I started thinking Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:55 AM by pfedevblog | 0 Comments

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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How to set a break point at the assembly instruction that returns an error code

By Linkai Yu When debugging, there are those situations when you don't have access to source code, you might have debugging symbols of a program that neither crashes nor generates an exception but simply displays an error message such as "The program Read More...
Posted Friday, October 09, 2009 2:45 AM by LinkaiYu | 0 Comments

Problems with x86 performance Monitor Counters on x64

This has come up a few times recently so I thought I would highlight a post from Todd Carter about how to get the x86 ASP.NET performance counters when running on an x64 OS: http://blogs.msdn.com/toddca/archive/2007/05/08/logging-32bit-asp-net-performance-counters-on-a-windows-2003-64bit-os.aspx Read More...
Posted Monday, September 07, 2009 4:06 AM by zakramer | 0 Comments

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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Best Practice - Workflow and Anonymous Delegates

Best Practice Recommendation In your Workflow application (more exactly in the host of your workflow application) never use anonymous delegate like that : AutoResetEvent waitHandle = new AutoResetEvent( false ); . . . workflowRuntime.WorkflowTerminated Read More...
Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 5:35 AM by pfedevblog | 1 Comments

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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Dump Analysis in a Disconnected Environment

Over the years I have come across the following restrictions in a variety of environments: The machines that we could do dump analysis did not have access to the internet. The dump could not leave those machines. These types of restrictions is a common Read More...
Posted Friday, February 27, 2009 7:47 PM by zakramer | 1 Comments

.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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Memory Based Recycling in IIS 6.0

Customers frequently ask questions regarding the recycling options for Application Pools in IIS. Several of those options are self explanatory, whereas others need a bit of analysis. I’m going to focus on the Memory Recycling options, which allow IIS Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009 6:20 AM by pfedevblog | 1 Comments
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Best Practice – WCF and Exceptions

Best Practice Recommendation In your WCF service, never let an exception propagate outside the service boundary without managing it. 2 Alternatives then : Either you manage the exception inside the service boundary and never propagate it outside Or you Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 04, 2008 5:27 PM by pfedevblog | 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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