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Windows 8 & Phone 8 UG August Meeting
29 August 12 11:22 PM | pavely | with no comments

Last evening we had a User Group meeting in Microsoft Offices in Ra’anana, with a lot of activity and fun. Thank you all for participating! In the first part, we discussed the Windows 8 Store from various angles, end user and developer. In the second part, we discussed Windows Phone 7.x and the upcoming 8, along with other sporadic topics - C++, WinRT, DirectX, COM, XNA, XAML… it was fun! And don’t forget the giveaways! Just as a gentle reminder, out next meeting is on September 13th , where we’ll...

תגים:COM, C++, .NET, XNA, C#, CLR, DEV, XAML, Native Development, DirectX, C# 5.0, Windows Phone, Windows 8, C++11, Windows Phone User Group, Windows Devices User Group, Windows Runtime, C++/CX

What’s New in CLR 4.5 Debugging API?
03 April 12 07:51 PM | pavely | with no comments

The most used command in the SOS extension DLL is probably !dumpheap . This command is able to show every object on the managed heap. This capability has no match within Visual Studio. The reason is that Visual Studio uses the CLR debugging API , that doesn’t seem to have this capability. At first glance, the ICorDebugProcess interface has the perfect method: EnumerateObjects . What could be better than that? Unfortunately, the documentation states that this method is not implemented… bummer. A while...

תגים:COM, C++, CLR, CLR Explorer, DEV, Win32, .NET 4.5, Visual Studio 11

Windows Platform Developers User Group meeting
06 October 10 10:45 PM | pavely | 3 comment(s)

This evening was a WPDUG meeting on CLR hosting and CLR profiling. Thank you all for coming! It was a pleasure to see so many of you there. My session was on CLR hosting, using the new CLR 4 hosting API. This is done using native code (C++) that uses COM for communication between the CLR and the host, both ways. I showed how to enumerate the installed runtimes, how to load a specific CLR (a new feature of CLR 4 – the ability to host multiple CLRs in a single process), how to create an application...

תגים:MFC, COM, C++, .NET, CLR, DEV, Win32, Internals, .NET 4, Windows Platfrom User Group