After a long time, I got a chance to setup Visual studio and code few things.
I could setup Visual studio express edition smoothly but when I tried to compile a ready code, it prompted that the support for MBCS is deprecated from MFC projects and the compilation will block at that error.
It seems Microsoft wants to force use of Unicode and that is good, as lazy devs like me won;t spend time porting code to Unicode unless MS blocks it completely.
However MS has an external library to add support for MBCS.
I got the setup...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Monday, October 07, 2013
Use links to use Windbg
Download WinDbg as a standalone installer
http://www.codemachine.com/resources.html
How to setup windbg as default debugger
http://support.citrix.com/article/ctx1075...
Thursday, September 06, 2012
Sample Perl Script Mail Send (SMTP) Example For Linux
Here is an example perl script to send email from a Linux box.
VERY IMPORTAT: @ symbol in this file MUST be escaped as \@.
for e.g. if you want to hardcode an email id say test@mydomain.com, the email id must be specified as test\@mydomain.com
disclaimer: I have been using this on CentOS 5 systems with perl v5.8.8.
#!/usr/bin/perl
#######################################################
#######################################################
#### The parameters in this file are written by #####
#### script Createmailscriptattach ...
Saturday, July 07, 2012
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Cross Certificates Problem on Windows7 for driver signing
If you are signing a driver on Windows 7, you might landup in getting errors related to incomplete certificate chain.
The solution is to install two additional certs:
1. Save the cert from this URL as .cer and run it to install this alternate CA cert:
https://knowledge.verisign.com/support/code-signing-support/index?page=content&actp=CROSSLINK&id=AR1575
2. If you are using verisign certs, download and extract this file and keep the cer file in the signing directory:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/7/f/d7fea3df-4e87-4f8e-b748-212334653028/_MSCV-VSClass3.exe
3....
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Binary Signing on Windows 7 64 bit
Just writing some quick notes.
Its is compulsary to sign your driver with a digital certificate on Windows 7 64bit edition. In fact it is a good practice to sign all your binaries with a digital certificate that will ensure that your binaries are not modified when user;s run them on their machines.
To sign a binary or a driver, you need a buy a Code Signing certificate from Verisign, Thawte or other cert providers.
If you are going to sign drivers also, it is recommended to purchase your cert only from Microsoft recommended...
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Kernel Debugging Windows 7
Here are the settings that need to be done in Windows 7 for kernel debugging:
1. start cmd with admin rights
2. run bcdedit to see existing boot entries
3. create a copy of current boot entry. run bcdedit to get the ID of newly created entry.
bcdedit /copy {current}/d "debugboot"4. set new boot entry as default. run bcdedit again to know the Identifier of this new debugboot entry.
bcdedit /default
5. set debug ON for this entry
bcdedit /debug ON
6. set debug settings: for e.g. for Serial port, COM1 and baudrate 115200
bcdedit...
