May 2008 - Posts

• Understanding build environment setttings in Visual Studio IDE vs Command Prompt

  As we know, both Visual Studio IDE and its Command Prompt provide build environments to build our C++ applications, but they have some differences. I concluded some features of them as following. (1)In the VS Command Prompt, if you use "/useenv" switch Read More... Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 9:47 PM by supu | 1 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio IDE, Command Prompt, VC++ Directories

• Strong Name and Authenticode Signature

  Sometimes you will see a managed assembly have both strong name and authenticode signature and are confused about their differences. Simply speaking, they use different mechanisms to help users to judge if the assembly comes from a trustable source. Also, Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 1:34 AM by supu | 0 Comments Filed under: Strong name, Code Signing, Authenticode