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Oct 25, 2023
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Deep Dive Analysis: Why did this dll increase in file size by 50%?

Keith Mahoney
Keith Mahoney

We recently noticed that one of the dlls that we produce had suddenly jumped up in file size. The WinUI Controls library, Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.dll that ships as part of Windows App SDK had ballooned in size in our internal builds. It had suddenly grown from 7 MB to 10.5 MB - approximately a 50% increase in size. What had happened to cause thi...

Performance and DiagnosticsSizeBench
Feb 22, 2023
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ETW Trace Processing Fails with Error Code 0x80070032

Jayson Maxson
Jayson Maxson

TL;DR New values in an existing ETW event aren’t supported, and a new version of the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT) or the Microsoft.Windows.EventTracing.Processing.Toolkit NuGet library is needed to process traces with these events. About this failure We began to receive reports of WPA failing to process traces with this error code in late 2...

Performance and Diagnostics