While debugging an issue I came across an interesting piece of code in Windows CRT source. So far I have been using the code below to determine if an executable is managed or native. Basically I am just checking for the presence of IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_COM_DESCRIPTOR Data Directory entry in PE headers. int CheckCLRHeader(PBYTE pbFile) { PIMAGE_DOS_HEADER […]
While debugging a reasonably complex .NET application, many times you may come across a situation where you want to know which different methods have subscribed to your event. If you are using VS2005 or VS2008 then DebuggerTypeProxyAttribute, a relatively unknown feature of Visual Studio, comes to your rescue. For a long time Visual Studio has […]
Visual Studio 2008 has a new feature called Multi-Targeting which allows developers to create applications that use different versions of .NET Framework using the same IDE. This feature has caused quite a bit of confusion among developers. Let me explain what the reason is for this confusion. Up until .NET Framework 2.0 the version of […]
For those living their lives in Reflector this is very welcome news. Microsoft has released source code of .NET Framework. Shawn Burke has detailed instructions on how to configure VS2008 to use symbols and be able to download source on the fly while debugging. Lot of people have blogged about this. However, some may still […]