End of an era for this blog…
Dear readers I've not blogged a lot in recent years but from tomorrow I will officially no longer blog here. I've not decided whether, where or if I will blog in the future. Time will tell. For the...
View ArticleRSS and Atom feeds for support content
Thanks to a new service from our content team, you can now get an Atom or RSS feed for a wide variety of support content categories, e.g. .NET Framework, .NET Core, Visual Studio or many other...
View ArticleGenGetProcessInfo.Start(0x1234) failed, 0x800700ea
This is rather obscure but seems to come up every so often. Here 0x1234 would be the process ID of the process that we were attempting to dump. The Win32 error is 0x800700ea The issue here was that one...
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Open the Visual Studio Output windows with the keyboard
I am not great with keyboard shortcuts. I use quite a few but my repertoire is a bit limited. One thing that frustrated me for a while though was the apparent lack of a shortcut to bring up the Output...
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Troubleshooting exceptions in a Windows Phone app
You know the situation – you develop and debug your app, all works well and you deploy it onto the phones of a few testers or friends. Then, you get reports of the app just disappearing. An app...
View ArticleFile version history for CLR 4.x
In the past I have maintained some blogs posts about version histories of the CLR 2.0 and CLR 4.0. People seem to have found those useful over the years but they have become quite tough to maintain....
View ArticleRed Hat Enterprise Linux in Azure Marketplace
Exciting announcements yesterday about the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Azure Marketplace. Find out more about Red Hat solutions on Azure here. /D
View ArticleUnable to build a simple Cordova app in Visual Studio? Here’s a possible fix…
It is not so often these days that support cases have a quick solution. With the wealth of forums and other channels for peer assistance, most straightforward issues get fixed before people call us. So...
View ArticleVersion history of the CLR 4.0
Following on from my “Version history of the CLR 2.0” post I’ve decided to start one for 4.0. The below generally only refer to patches affecting core CLR files clr.dll, not the rest of the...
View ArticlePasswordVault.Add may fail on Windows 10
I am slightly embarrassed by the length of time since my last blog post. But never mind, here I am again! I’ve been working on a customer issue lately where an existing Windows Store app was failing...
View ArticleUpcoming webinars from @WSDevSol
Some upcoming webinars, first one today! Brought to you by members of the Windows Store Developer Solutions team in Microsoft Customer Service and Support. Debugging your Direct3D apps for Windows...
View ArticleTechEd 2014 is underway with LOTS of exciting new stuff announced!
TechEd North America 2014 is underway! You can find an overview of the announcements on Soma and Brian’s blogs. Below are some resources of particular interest to developers News & Videos: Read...
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Script Browser and Script Analyzer
Microsoft has just released two new resources to ease IT Pros’ lives. · Script Browser – IT Pros can search, download and manage 9000+ TechNet automation script samples covering almost all Microsoft IT...
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Background Transfer API chalk and talk
On February 26th, 6pm – 8pm GMT (10am – 12pm PST) members of our Windows Store apps developer support team will deliver an online chalk and talk about how to use and debug the Background Transfer API....
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DebugDiag 2.0 available
An awesome update to that long staple tool in the IIS and general debugging toolbox has now been released.DebugDiag 2.0 is HERE!Go get it!Doug
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Finding the .NET version in a debug session
An interesting little question came up on one of our internal discussion groups today.“How can I find in a debug session the version of the .NET runtime being used in the debuggee?”[in an...
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An index to Maoni's blog posts about the GC
Maoni Stephens has a great blog about how the .NET Garbage Collector (GC) works.I was delivering a .NET debug class last week and had cause to bring together an index of her many GC related...
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Tool to turn Hyper-V VM state into a memory dump – vm2dmp tool
Here is a very clever idea made reality. Take a virtual machine that you want to do some kernel level spelunking on. Rather than going into the guest and generating a kernel dump by one of the usual...
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Generating Application Verifier logs for web applications
Application Verifier is a useful tool for capturing application bugs (mostly of the non-.NET variety) – things like heap corruption, resource leaks, invalid handle usage and the ignoring of exceptions...
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Failed to CoCreate profiler
Sometimes support cases are like buses. You never see one and then two or three the same come along all at once. Recently one of my team mates asked me about an error his customer was getting in their...
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