Visual Studio Setup

Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products

Script Repository

Script Repository

Heath StewartAugust 17, 2005Aug 17, 200508/17/05

If you're using Windows Script to perform a lot of everyday functions or even need a one-use script to automate a batch process there's a great resource available on the web on our TechNet site: The Script Center Script Repository. There are hundreds of example scripts available from managing Active Directory to managing Office documents and a

Avoid Deadlocks in your Script Host when Tearing down JScript

Avoid Deadlocks in your Script Host when Tearing down JScript

Heath StewartJune 6, 2005Jun 6, 200506/6/05

A couple teams recently reported an issue where their script host hung due to deadlocks. Since jscript.dll was in the call stack for the hung thread it didn't take long for the bug to wind up in our lap, since CPX also sustains Windows Script. The problem was that as one thread was exiting and DLL_THREAD_DETACH was passed to the DllMain callba