Jigar Mehta's Blog

How to programmatically determine whether UAC is enabled or not

The moth says, This is a question I get often: "How can I determine if User Account Control is on or...

Author: jigarme Date: 04/28/2007

Passing XmlDocument object as argument while using .NET Remoting

Just got a problem where developer was passing the object of XmlDocument in a remoted object's...

Author: jigarme Date: 03/21/2007

Regsvr32.exe gives error 'The specified procedure could not be found'

Just got a problem where the COM DLL was compiled on Windows XP and while registering the DLL, it...

Author: jigarme Date: 03/16/2007

Microsoft customers melting down over Daylight Saving patches

Thousands of Microsoft customers are running into problems understanding and applying the myriad...

Author: jigarme Date: 03/11/2007

Implementing the Connection Points on the client side..

While searching a very simple/basic sample with good guidelines on this, I found following article...

Author: jigarme Date: 02/11/2007

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT is just a logical structure..

Just came to know that HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT is nothing but a logical top level component.. The main...

Author: jigarme Date: 02/09/2007

Structured storage.. How to start !!!

Found few good articles on structured storage.. https://www.endurasoft.com/vcd/ststo.htm...

Author: jigarme Date: 02/05/2007

COM Apartments..

I was searching for real good examples and theory about COM apartment.. From all the publicly...

Author: jigarme Date: 01/08/2007

What is Isolated Storage?

Was searching answer to this question and found a very good articles at,...

Author: jigarme Date: 01/04/2007

KB917344 is very important scripting players !!

Just came across an issue, I went behind for around 1 month and at last could conclude that KB917344...

Author: jigarme Date: 01/03/2007

How to call assembly code routine from Visual Basic !!

I just came across this question and while researching, found no official page that says it. But...

Author: jigarme Date: 01/03/2007

How to load the assemblies from disk apart from GAC and current directory?

Just came across this question and got to know about a method where we can get the assembly resolve...

Author: jigarme Date: 12/20/2006

The order in which Assemblies are located by runtime!

Just came across this question, and did some research! This is the order. Configuration files...

Author: jigarme Date: 12/18/2006

System.Runtime.Remoting Schema not found.

I just had a case where customer wanted to validate the XML schema for .NET Remoting configuration...

Author: jigarme Date: 11/28/2006

How to load the assembly from location different from the application path or any of its subdirectories!

Just got a case where customer needed to load C# Assembly from location which is not in the...

Author: jigarme Date: 11/08/2006

COM-.NET Interop development? Take care of this thing.

I was trying my hands at creating a .NET 2.0 component that can be consumed by a COM application....

Author: jigarme Date: 10/13/2006

Why are two files created in temporary folder while calling function StgCreateStorageEx?

I am finding answer for the question, Why are two files created in temporary folder while making...

Author: jigarme Date: 09/29/2006

Files in Temporary folder

Many a times, I was thinking previously which process might be generating this kind [~DF9094.tmp] of...

Author: jigarme Date: 09/26/2006

Structured Storage

Structured storage is set of APIs from Microsoft which enables you to create application that can...

Author: jigarme Date: 09/25/2006

ActiveX Script Environment

I got chance to get myself introduced to ActiveX Script environment. Actually this is set of COM...

Author: jigarme Date: 09/25/2006

First blog post !!

My first blog post. Here I will post all my technical experience and new problems solutions (that I...

Author: jigarme Date: 09/25/2006

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