Packet analyzers are powerful tools to troubleshoot remote communications between distributed applications. Microsoft are creating various new frameworks to lower the bar/cost for the developers to build distributed applications in Windows ecosystem, while those new technologies introduces additional layers and abstractions on top of existing APIs. And sometimes, if certain error happens in the lower…
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Case Study: Pack Mismatch
Packing is a way to arrange data in memory using padding technique to align data at a memory offset equal to multiple of a fix size (usual the word size, but it could be byte size, DWORD size or any other size). The purpose of packing is to align the data memory layout to the…