.NET Crash Dump and live process analysis via clrmd

Application debugging and analysis can be a daunting task, even more when source code neither symbols are not available. Visual Studio provides developers with powerful debugging capabilities, but the problem many times faced by developers is that Visual Studio is not installed on the target computer which is fair enough if it is a production […]

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Presentation material “Developing Microsoft Azure Apps”

Hi community, Please find below the presentation material from Today’s session. Regards, Angel [office src=”https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=2FE1291768841ACE&resid=2FE1291768841ACE%215468&authkey=AGy7DK9bJRUrSpA” width=”98″ height=”120″”]

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Read XML config files with Visual C++

Hi Community, I am currently working on an add-in for Visual Studio to expose some functionality available in the “Debugger Engine and Extension APIs”. The development is in the very early stages, but I have completed already one feature required by the Add-in, which is the  ability to read XML configuration files similarly to how […]

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Visual Studio "4" CTP – General Availability

Hi Community, Microsoft has announced the general availability for Visual Studio “14” CTP Today. There are quite a few interesting features, in both native and managed languages. Please find below some resources about this release: Release Notes Visual Studio “14” CTP now available in the Virtual Machine Azure Gallery Visual Studio “14” CTP Visual Studio […]

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Presentation material “Developing Windows 8 Apps”

Hi community, Please find below the presentation material from Today’s session. Regards, Angel [office src=”https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=2FE1291768841ACE&resid=2FE1291768841ACE%215177&authkey=AItKk-jONueKqNM” width=”98″ height=”120″”]

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements as an mvp mentor

Hi Community, I would like to invite you to a couple of sessions I’ll present in the next couple of weeks, please find the details below: Developing Windows 8 Apps Developing Windows Azure Apps I look forward to seeing you there Regards, Angel

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.NET Native

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 […]

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MICROSOFT MVP COMCAMP 2014 – SYDNEY (Presentation material)

Hi Community, Please find below the demo code and slide deck I used at “Microsoft MVP ComCamp 2014 – Sydney” Yesterday afternoon. [office src=”https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=2FE1291768841ACE&resid=2FE1291768841ACE%214676&authkey=AGyXU0rbpyff6q8″ width=”98″ height=”120″]   Regards, Angel

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Checking whether the clr requires to be loaded with visual C++

As part of this personal project I am currently working on, I need to  reuse a C# component I wrote a few years back. I think I have blogged about this topic in the past on my old blog, but here I will show you how to check whether the CLR requires to be loaded […]

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Extending a custom property page by overriding its Window Procedure

I am currently working on a personal project which requires to extend the operating system shell via a custom property page (IShellPropSheetExt interface), however, this customization has to behave differently to the default behaviour of the Shell, therefore I have to intercept the click event of any of the property page buttons (e.g.: Ok, Cancel […]

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