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How to Install and Configure WinDbg for Efficient Debugging

Debugging is an essential aspect of software development that allows developers to analyze and fix issues within their applications. WinDbg, a powerful debugger from Microsoft, is a vital tool for developers working on Windows environments. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the steps to install WinDbg and configure it for optimal use, as

PowerShell CmdLet to check OneDrive for Business or OneDrive Personal Status

  My good friend Neil Hodgkinson gave me a challenge: some partners and companies were asking him how to verify the status of OneDrive. He gave me the idea to check the icon of the OneDrive folder and depending on the icon, tell the status. I created a proof-of-concept and then helped some folks at

Identifying the .NET version you are running (2.0, 4.5, 4.5.1 or 4.5.2)

  .NET 2.0 to 3.5 These version shares the same runtime and the version starts with 2.0.50727 followed by the build number. The file that will tell us the version being used is mscorwks.dll. You may choose other files as well, but this one will be present both in the file system if you want

Adapting to the caller namespace soap 1.1 request in classic asmx via Filter

  I had received a somewhat odd request to produce a proof-of-concept application to enable a classic asmx Web Services to accept any namespace in the soap 1.1 request and to return the same namespace to the caller. To understand the problem let us review the soap 1.1 requirement on what it matters. The Soap

ForeFront The Missing Manual

  My friend Yuri Diogenes, one of the security gurus here at Microsoft, in partnership with Jim Harrison, Mohit Saxena and having Tom Shinder as Technical Reviewer released last February the Microsoft Press Administrator’s Companion for Forefront TMG 2010, the new generation of Microsoft Firewall, which had ISA Server as it predecessor. The book has