I am trying to instrument an object that gets loaded into ASP.NET Cache
during Windows_OnAuthenticate() in global.asax.  I have properly put in place
all of the required instrumentation code for both the instrumented class and
done the proper install with installutil.exe.  I used ...

  I am using the Hotspots tacker dll provided by MS under
D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Tool
Developers Guide\Samples\profiler\hst_profiler...
I am able to get the log output but I am always getting the following

  We have a client application that takes 15 secs to launch after the
machine has been rebooted...now if I close the application and start
again it takes 6 secs...what is the mystery?
Does this mean:

The problem:
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I am using the 'MetaData API' ('AssemblyLoadFinished') to manipulate an
assembly being loaded,  I am changing the '#~' section of the metadata, this

I have a Windows Service that processes MSMQ messages and dynamically
instantiates 'Message Processor' components according to the message type.
I use the Assembly.LoadFrom(<assembly path>) call to load the appropriate
assembly from its path. All works fine as far as the assembly ...

I've already posted this on the vsnet.debugging and the develop.com CLR list
to no avail. This might seem slightly off-topic but any help would be
*deeply* appreciated.
I'm just learning my way around WinDbg and have hit a problem.

Hi I am trying to call IMetaDataImport::GetClassLayout from a profiler and
it returns 0x80131130
What am I doing wrong?
In general is there another way to find out the offset a field within a

I have the following code that loads an image, resizes it as a new
image and then saves to a new file, the original image file then gets
deleted and the new image is renamed to the old filename.
Now I get the following exception on the File.Delete line

Ive creates an applicatino that uses worker assemblies to perform functions
when required to communicate to WinCE devices accross various locations
around the UK. When I want the WinCE device to use one of these worker
assemblies, I load it into a new AppDomain and execute the ...

What is the default value of a pointer type?
Is it "null"? since a pointer type is in particular a reference type
Thanks. George

I have a big confusion with me that if we have a windows application
executable built using C#.NET and when we execute it for the first time the
following things happens:
1. clr calls JIT to convert MSIL to native.

I have just installed Visual Studio.net 2003 Enterprise Architect.
I have been using Visual Interdev so far, and I am used to be able to select
from a desktop bunch of .asp files, drag and drop them into a Project
Explorer window and have it show there as a tree of files. Is there ...

I have a .NET executable which creates multiple AppDomains on demand. The
executable's Main method is marked with LoaderOptimization.MultiDomainHost.
The AppDomains are created on demand. I subscribe to AssemblyResolve for
each AppDomain. I share commonly used assemblies in ...

If I have an object held only by a weak reference, and I write code that
looks like:
dim strongRef as Object
if wr.IsAlive() then

Does anyone know what is behind the runtime managed ".ctor" and "Invoke"
methods of a delegate type?
What is performed in these methods whose bodies are provided by the runtime?
Any idea?