Soliciting feedback on two features

[Alan Shi [MSFT]]

I am collecting data for two features that shipped with the CLR in v1.0 and
v1.1. If you use and/or depend on these features, I would appreciate hearing
from you with a brief description of how you use these features.

1) .NET Application Restore tool

A few sources, including Jeffrey Richter's "Applied Microsoft .NET Framework
Programming" book, describe a feature called the "app restore tool", which
can be accessed via the .NET configuration tool. There is logging
information recorded for each managed application that runs, which can be
used by this tool to try to analyze any binding policy (e.g. binding
redirect) changes that affected the application, and suggest ways to get
your application back to an older state.

2) CacheLocation

This is a relatively obscure feature that allows relocation of the GAC via a
registry key setting. Support for this feature is limited, and there are a
variety of known problems when this feature is actually used.

Any comments you have would be apprecaited. Thanks.

..\lan

--
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/alanshi

[John Timney \(Microsoft MVP\)]

2) CacheLocation

Seems to be a required feature and I have seen this asked about a number of
times in the newsgroups. While I have never used it, I can see many a time
when I will when a server decides to need rebuild, and needs the GAC
relocating.

--
Regards

John Timney (Microsoft ASP.NET MVP)
----------------------------------------------
<shameless_author_plug>
Professional .NET for Java Developers with C#
ISBN:1-861007-91-4
Professional Windows Forms
ISBN: 1861005547
Professional JSP 2nd Edition
ISBN: 1861004958
Professional JSP
ISBN: 1861003625
Beginning JSP Web Development
ISBN: 1861002092
</shameless_author_plug>
----------------------------------------------

"Alan Shi [MSFT]" <al***********@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ue**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

I am collecting data for two features that shipped with the CLR in v1.0 and v1.1. If you use and/or depend on these features, I would appreciate hearing from you with a brief description of how you use these features.

1) .NET Application Restore tool

A few sources, including Jeffrey Richter's "Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming" book, describe a feature called the "app restore tool", which
can be accessed via the .NET configuration tool. There is logging
information recorded for each managed application that runs, which can be
used by this tool to try to analyze any binding policy (e.g. binding
redirect) changes that affected the application, and suggest ways to get
your application back to an older state.

2) CacheLocation

This is a relatively obscure feature that allows relocation of the GAC via a registry key setting. Support for this feature is limited, and there are a
variety of known problems when this feature is actually used.

Any comments you have would be apprecaited. Thanks.

.\lan

--
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/alanshi