Native Archives - Angel Hernandez

Visual SOS – Visual Studio extension to debug managed applications through SOS

Posted on April 26, 2018July 22, 2020 by angelh

Visual SOS is both an executable and extension for Visual Studio that leverages the debugger engine available in Windows in conjunction with SOS debugging extension. It’s similar to having Windbg embedded into Visual Studio but in a much simpler way, because it exposes some of the most commonly used commands just a click away. Visual […]

Instrumenting *nix Systems via C#, C++, Mono and Qt

Posted on June 18, 2016February 23, 2019 by angelh

Hi Community, The following article is about one of the subjects I’m most passionate about that’s integration of disparate systems and cross-platform computing. I think, it’s something I had to publish and it’s one of the core components of my SIF project (Service Integration Framework). This approach can be applied to a variety of scenarios, […]

Checking for library dependencies in Windows and Linux

Posted on June 8, 2016December 23, 2016 by angelh

Hi Community, Today’s post is about identifying and learning about the dependencies our applications might have with shared libraries. One of the beautiful things about software is that it’s universal similar to music, therefore patterns and principles are agnostic of any platform, but they’re also applicable to specific platforms. In order to get started, we […]

Building Native Windows Applications with CLION, GCC and CygWin

Posted on May 15, 2015December 23, 2016 by angelh

As a software developer and architect, I’m always looking at options for my customers whether they’re around technologies, tools, hosting, security and tenancy model (being the last three mandatory in a “cloudy” world) among some other factors and considerations. To me crafting software it’s more than cracking code and ensure it compiles, it’s more about […]

Native Windows Service Example

Posted on February 8, 2015February 4, 2022 by angelh

Hi Community, This blog post describes and explains the steps required to build a native Windows Service. One of the projects I’m currently working on is about a metadata filesystem for Windows (Similar to what WinFS was supposed to be but different in many aspects, mainly because users will have a greater level of customization […]

.NET Native

Posted on April 7, 2014December 23, 2016 by angelh

I can still remember last year when I attended the MVP Summit 2013 an awesome talk by the Visual C++ team around “CLR team working closely with Visual C++ team to improve performance of .NET apps as well as making .NET available for every device”. Unfortunately, I could not disclose that information because it was […]