{"id":2583,"date":"2006-01-10T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2006\/01\/10\/why-is-mscoree-lib-so-old\/"},"modified":"2006-01-10T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T13:59:00","slug":"why-is-mscoree-lib-so-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/why-is-mscoree-lib-so-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Mscoree.lib So Old?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people have noticed that <i>mscoree.lib<\/i> in the <i>Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 2005VCPlatfromSDKLib<\/i> directory is older than the release date for .NET 2.0. If you run <i>dumpbin.exe<\/i> on the two libraries you&#8217;ll see vastly different time stamps:<\/p>\n<p>&gt; dumpbin.exe \/headers &#8220;Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 8VCPlatfromSDKLibmscoree.lib&#8221;<br \/>Dump of file C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 8VCPlatformSDKlibmscoree.lib<\/p>\n<p>File Type: LIBRARY<\/p>\n<p>FILE HEADER VALUES<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;14C machine (x86)<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3 number of sections<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#ff0000\">3BEF5B8C<\/font> time date stamp <font color=\"#ff0000\">Sun Nov 11 21:18:04 2001<\/font><br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;10C file pointer to symbol table<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;8 number of symbols<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;0 size of optional header<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;100 characteristics<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;32 bit word machine<br \/>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&gt; dumpbin.exe \/headers &#8220;Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 8SDKv2.0Libmscoree.lib&#8221;<br \/>Dump of file C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 8SDKv2.0Libmscoree.lib<\/p>\n<p>File Type: LIBRARY<\/p>\n<p>FILE HEADER VALUES<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;14C machine (x86)<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3 number of sections<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#ff0000\">4333A1D6<\/font> time date stamp <font color=\"#ff0000\">Thu Sep 22 23:33:58 2005<\/font><br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;10C file pointer to symbol table<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;8 number of symbols<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;0 size of optional header<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;100 characteristics<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;32 bit word machine<br \/>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only reasonable that the Platform SDK wouldn&#8217;t have the .NET 2.0 drop of <i>mscoree.lib<\/i>, however, since the current Platform SDK drop for the release of Visual Studio 8 is geared toward Windows Server 2003 and down-level platforms.<\/p>\n<p>To get the latest versions of <i>mscoree.lib<\/i> and for the other supported processor architectures &#8211; both x64 and IA64 &#8211; you should download the appropriate Microsoft .NET Framework SDK from <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/netframework\/downloads\/updates\/default.aspx\">http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/netframework\/downloads\/updates\/default.aspx<\/a>. I&#8217;ve enumerated the current SDK downloads for your convenience here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>.NET 1.0 SDK (x86) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=4fe5bdb5-c7a7-4505-9927-2213868a325b\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=4fe5bdb5-c7a7-4505-9927-2213868a325b<\/a><\/li>\n<li>.NET 1.1 SDK (x86) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=9b3a2ca6-3647-4070-9f41-a333c6b9181d\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=9b3a2ca6-3647-4070-9f41-a333c6b9181d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>.NET 2.0 SDK (x86) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=fe6f2099-b7b4-4f47-a244-c96d69c35dec\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=fe6f2099-b7b4-4f47-a244-c96d69c35dec<\/a><\/li>\n<li>.NET 2.0 SDK (x64) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=1aef6fce-6e06-4b66-afe4-9aad3c835d3d\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=1aef6fce-6e06-4b66-afe4-9aad3c835d3d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>.NET 2.0 SDK (IA64) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=f4dd601b-1b88-47a3-bdc1-79afa79f6fb0\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=f4dd601b-1b88-47a3-bdc1-79afa79f6fb0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people have noticed that mscoree.lib in the Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 2005VCPlatfromSDKLib directory is older than the release date for .NET 2.0. If you run dumpbin.exe on the two libraries you&#8217;ll see vastly different time stamps: &gt; dumpbin.exe \/headers &#8220;Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 8VCPlatfromSDKLibmscoree.lib&#8221;Dump of file C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 8VCPlatformSDKlibmscoree.lib File Type: LIBRARY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-development"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Some people have noticed that mscoree.lib in the Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 2005VCPlatfromSDKLib directory is older than the release date for .NET 2.0. 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