Re: C# & Microsoft


"Kevin Spencer" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:udRXKTceGHA.2172@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It took me about 4 days to track it down, because it turns out that it was a native image that was causing the problem, and those are nearly impossible to find, much less fix. I had to use everything from Dependency Walker to listDlls to FileMon to WinDebug to find it. It was a VisualC.dll native image that was causing the problem, and oddly enough, that is not a managed DLL, and shouldn't have been loaded at all. Uisng nGen didn't fix it, so I uninstalled all versions of the .Net platform, the DirectX SDK, both versions of Visual Studio.Net, and all .Net components, deleted all the remaining files, rebooted, reinstalled everything, and it was fine.

I believe it was related to an install of an early beta of the WinFX SDK that I did around December. I remember having a bear of a time trying to install it. But until now, it had not caused any problems. But of course, MDX is a bit different than most .Net software.

But as I was doing the uninstalling, I realized that thankfully, the rest of my non-DotNet software was unscathed by the process. So, I'm thinking that once Vista comes out, with basically a form of .Net built into the OS, we may see more critical apps written in .Net. Still, MS may have to do something about the GAC, at least along the lines of being able to repair it. And of course, mostly for the use of developers and those of us brave enough to beta test their software!

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Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Professional Numbskull

Hard work is a medication for which
there is no placebo.

"William Stacey [MVP]" <william.stacey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eGSXeyaeGHA.2068@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|I can give you one good reason why OS and other MS apps are not written in
| .Net, after my recent experience.

I can understand why OS is not, but plenty of MS apps are (SBA, BizTalk,
WPF, WCF, etc).

| The .Net platform can be removed, changed, and corrupted, although this is
| not common. Still, it happened to me, and was a pain in the *** to
| diagnose. The OS can also be corrupted, but its much more difficult to do
| so. Once the platform is corrupted, everything that uses it is corrupted.

What happened? Did you figure out the root cause (Beta sw install/remove,
virus, other)?

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William Stacey [MVP]






Yeah, didn't you post this in the mdx newsgroup a day or two ago? Thought I saw it in there too :)

Mythran

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