MITHUN SHANBHAG's blog

In-depth Articles- [Matt Pietrek] Internals of SEH. [Matt Pietrek] Vectored Exception Handling....

Author: Mithun Shanbhag Date: 01/09/2013

In-depth Articles- [MSDN] Let CLR find bugs for you with MDAs Tips and Tricks- [Thomas Lai] How to...

Author: Mithun Shanbhag Date: 08/03/2012

Profiler and NGEN’ed images.

[NOTE: This is a repost from my old blog www.debugtricks.com. The old blog no longer exists and I'll...

Author: Mithun Shanbhag Date: 03/22/2011

Image File Execution Options (IFEO)

[NOTE: This is a repost from my old blog www.debugtricks.com. The old blog no longer exists and I'll...

Author: Mithun Shanbhag Date: 03/24/2010

[Random] How to quickly view a binary's embedded manifest?

The "sigcheck" tool from sysinternals is of great help here. Use the "-m" option to view the...

Author: Mithun Shanbhag Date: 12/16/2009

SeImpersonatePrivilege

NOTE - I wrote this up more than a year back and for some mysterious reasons forgot to post it! Much...

Author: Mithun Shanbhag Date: 07/03/2007

DllImportAttribute.PreserveSig vs PreserveSigAttribute

DllImportAttribute.PreserveSig - Mainly used in PInvoke Signatures By default, while using...

Author: Mithun Shanbhag Date: 05/06/2007

Why does ICorDebug::SetManagedHandler() return E_NOINTERFACE?

Since I have no energy to type a long post today (sigh), I'll spare you the gory details on the...

Author: Mithun Shanbhag Date: 12/22/2006

Pay attention to the calling convention!

Ever seen this run-time failure? - "The value of ESP was not properly saved across a function call....

Author: Mithun Shanbhag Date: 12/11/2006

Quote of the day!

When I score goals I'm great, when I don't I'm fat. - Ronaldo

Author: Mithun Shanbhag Date: 12/08/2006

MDBG ver 2.1 released

Today we released the latest version of the managed debugger - MDbg. For the past few days, we've...

Author: Mithun Shanbhag Date: 11/22/2006

User Account Control and Split Tokens.

QUICK QUESTION - I am a member of the local administrators group on a Windows Vista Machine. How can...

Author: Mithun Shanbhag Date: 04/04/2006

Data Breakpoint Oddities

NOTE: This is going to be a very long, verbose, bizarre and wierd post. So try not to fall asleep....

Author: Mithun Shanbhag Date: 02/28/2006

Easiest and laziest way to view a process's command line

QUESTION - What is the easiest way to view an arbitrary process's command line? SHORT ANSWER - Fire...

Author: Mithun Shanbhag Date: 02/18/2006