How to debug LoadLibrary/FreeLibrary

“Application Verifier to the rescue”:

How can I diagnose why my FreeLibrary isn’t freeing the library? – The Old New Thing

“How much memory is your process using?”

This post does a great job sumarizing the different notions behind memory management in Windows. Clear and consise explanations details virtual/physical, commited/reserved and how section sharing can complexify computation of “How much memory is your process using?”.

A link that is worth preserving at least for the definition of each term: Windows Process Memory Usage Demystified | All Your Base Are Belong To Us

How to disable Windows 10 forced reboot

I was realy annoyed by too frequent Windows 10 reboot. Found this really easy way to disable them: How Easily Disable The Automatic Forced Reboot after Windows 10 has done an Update Four easy… – justpaste.it

WinFsp: helper to develop user mode file system in Windows

This project provides an infrastructure to build user mode file system:

• A kernel mode file system driver is responsible of re-routing IRP to user mode code,
• A library provide a low level abstraction to build user mode file system. This part make the glu with previous kernel driver. A FUSE compatible layer is also provided,
• a sample fs, memfs: an in memory file system,
• A Windows Service called WinFsp Launcher to launch multiple user mode file system.

Source: Main | WinFsp

EDIT: Yet another solution for developping user mode filesystem with FUSE support: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany with a .Net binding.

How to reset Linux SubSystem

TLDR; In an admin Cmd, run:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>LxRun.exe /uninstall

N.B.: You can reset filesystem adding /full

C:\WINDOWS\system32>LxRun.exe /install

Source: I broke the Windows Linux Subsystem (Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10). Linux Help? – Super User

EDIT: Bash and lxrun  Command Reference.

Windows Subsystem for Linux Overview

This blog post is only a starting point. More is supposed to follow here.

Windows apps concept mapping between Android, iOS and UWP

A map to help Android and iOS developpers to find which UWP components they can use: Windows apps concept mapping for Android and iOS developers. If you know Android/iOS components for a particulat task, you will find UWP equivalent.

Which networking technology for UWP?

Guide to choose networking technologie for UWP: Which networking technology? – Windows app development

Data virtualization in UWP

ListView and GridView data virtualization details strategies to follow and interfaces to implement for very large list implementations.

 

Task Scheduler Managed Wrapper

Easy to use wrapper arround Task Scheduler: Task Scheduler Managed Wrapper – Home (samples here). You can create, delete, modify, list tasks on local machine or remote one.

Tasks are made of:

a trigger:

• BootTrigger,
• IdleTrigger,
• LogonTrigger (can include a specific user by name or SID),
• RegistrationTrigger (auto trigger after self regsitration),
• SessionStateChangeTrigger (“connecting or disconnecting locally or remotely, or locking or unlocking the session”)
• and every time specific triggers.

an action:

• ExecAction,
• EmailAction,
• ShowMessageAction,
• ComHandlerAction (“It allows the task to execute and In-Proc COM server object that implements the ITaskHandler interface”).