Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
April 27, 2005Apr 27, 200504/27/05In Getting Debug Symbols even for Retail Builds I detailed how to set up your machine and Visual Studio .NET to download public symbols from Microsoft’s symbol server. This process has changed for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2.
When debugging your projects it’s often helpful or even necessary to see the functions in the call stack.
April 27, 2005Apr 27, 200504/27/05Here inside Microsoft we of course have access to private debug symbols to help debug issues like I do in Windows Script as a member of the Customer Product-lifecycle Experience (CPX) team. We use a host of debugging tools like Windbg.exe,
April 25, 2005Apr 25, 200504/25/05Not so long ago, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 for x64 were released to manufacturing (RTM’d). Today, they have finally shipped and are available to consumers, but you won’t find these yet on retail sales shelves.
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is available on x64 machines now,
April 21, 2005Apr 21, 200504/21/05Bruce Schneier pointed out an interesting article that got me thinking and even made me laugh a little. From the article:
Suppose you turn on your laptop while sitting at the kitchen table at home and respond “OK” to a prompt about accessing a nearby wireless Internet access point owned and operated by a neighbor.
April 19, 2005Apr 19, 200504/19/05Surely by now you’ve seen the news on the Blogs.msdn.com homepage that both .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2 and Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 (both also known as “Whidbey Beta 2”) have been released, so I won’t mention it. 😉
I do want to share,
April 15, 2005Apr 15, 200504/15/05Working on 32- and 64-bit patch support for Developer Division projects like the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, I’ve been involved with many threads and in many meetings about the various scenarios and solutions for producing patches that target our supported platform architectures.
April 12, 2005Apr 12, 200504/12/05Windows Installer 3.1 is now available as a redistributable from the Microsoft Download Center. Among the changes are support for MSIs targeting x64 platforms, which I described in a previous blog entry; some fixes for source resolution problems; and opt-in behavior for flyweight patching,
