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Friday, November 20, 2009 5:52 PM

Using SecAnnotate to Analyze Your Assemblies for Transparency Violations

SecAnnotate can be used to analyze your assemblies, especially APTCA assemblies in order to find transparency violations without needing code coverage from a test case.  The static analysis provided by SecAnnotate is valuable in ensuring that your
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 8:12 PM

New samples in Win 7 SDK: Direct2D and DirectWrite

The Windows 7 SDK comes with several components, including tools, documentation, headers and libraries, and samples. In this series of blogs, I’ll go through a number of sample that particularly target the new features in Windows 7. I’ll talk
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 6:19 PM

Building web services on Windows with C++

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 introduce the new framework for building web services in C++ code. Windows Web Services API (WWSAPI) supports the core set of protocols for SOAP-based web services. Developers can use WWSAPI in applications where they
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Friday, October 16, 2009 12:08 AM

Development with Windows SDK & DirectX SDK when Visual Studio 2008 is installed

In order to utilize DirectX SDK resources you should ensure that the DirectX SDK include, library, and executables directories are set correctly in Visual Studio 2008. The order in which Visual Studio 2008 looks for executable directories and library
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Monday, October 12, 2009 5:49 PM

Win SDK Hidden Gems: Function Discovery Browser (fdbrowser.exe)

The Function Discovery API, introduced in Vista, serves as an abstraction layer between applications and devices. This API allows applications to discover devices by function rather than lower level details such as bus or connection type. The Function
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:05 PM

Windows 7 SDK Setup: common installation issues and fixes

This post describes common installation problems with the Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (released August 2009), and workarounds for each issue. The Windows SDK for Windows 7 is available for download in both ISO and Web Setup format.
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Friday, August 21, 2009 10:33 PM

Windows SDK Configuration Tool May Report an Error When OS Display Format is not English

This post describes a problem with the Windows SDK Configuration Tool, which is used to set the version of Windows SDK headers, libraries and tools you wish to build with in the Visual Studio or Windows SDK build environments. Issue: When you launch the
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Monday, August 10, 2009 11:51 PM

Troubleshooting Windows 7 SDK Download/Install

This article applies to the Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Read these other posts to troubleshoot issues with the Windows SDK for Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 or to troubleshoot issues with the Windows SDK Update for Vista
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Friday, August 07, 2009 9:57 PM

Installing Windows SDK for Server 2008 (v6.1) after VS2008 SP1 causes conflicts with Security Update (KB971092)

Issue : If you install the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 , on top of Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack1, some CRT files will revert back to RTM version. ( See this post for more information about this issue ) This can cause
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Friday, August 07, 2009 9:53 PM

Windows SDK for Server 2008 (v6.1) overwrites VS2008 SP1 CRT files

Issue : If you install the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 , on top of any post-RTM Visual Studio update (such as a Service Pack or Feature Pack), some CRT files will be reverted back to RTM version. Cause : This problem occurs
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Friday, August 07, 2009 6:50 PM

Using the Win 7 SDK Build Environment with VS 2008

Changes have been made to the Windows SDK build environment and how the SDK interacts with MSBUILD and Visual Studio 2008. This post applies to the RTM release of the Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 . What changed with the Windows
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Friday, August 07, 2009 5:42 PM

Released: Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

The RTM release of the Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is now available for download in both ISO and Web Setup format. Web setup allows you to install a specific subset of the SDK you select without having to download the entire SDK.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 12:30 AM

New Win32 Samples in Windows SDK for Windows 7: Communication

This is the post number 11, the final article in a series that describes new and updated samples in the Windows 7 SDK. The following is a new COM+ Spy sample that was updated to support Windows 7. See also: New Win32 Samples in Windows SDK for Windows
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:08 PM

New Win32 Samples in Windows SDK for Windows 7: Windows XML Paper Specification (XPS)

This is post number 10 in a series that describes new and updated samples in the Windows 7 SDK. The following table lists samples that illustrate Windows XML Paper Specification (XPS), which provides users with a consistent document appearance regardless
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:05 PM

New Win32 Samples in Windows SDK for Windows 7: Windows User Interface

This is post number 9 in a series that describes new and updated samples in the Windows 7 SDK. The following table lists samples that pertain to Windows User Interface , and are new to Windows 7 or updated to support Windows 7. Technologies include Shell,
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