Month: April 2008

Registering ATL Performance Counters on Vista and Server 2008

If you use the ATL Server performance counter libraries, you may run into a problem on Vista and WS08.  The ATL libraries don’t play well with the updates to Windows Resource Protection.  WRP enforces restrictions on the registry to prevent corruption of performance counters.  ATL breaks these rules and tries to update the registry directly. … Read moreRegistering ATL Performance Counters on Vista and Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility presentation

In the compatibility labs, we always give an big overview presentation about Windows application compatibility.  There’s a lot of overlap between Vista and WS08 AppCompat but we call out some specific areas that mostly affect WS08.  We’ve recorded the WS08 specific section of the presentation and posted it to Channel 9.  I hope you find … Read moreWindows Server 2008 Application Compatibility presentation