Archive for October, 2008

Cross-Domain JSON with Silverlight

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Both Flash and Silverlight allow you to “mash up” data from other web sites, but only if that site has a crossdomain.xml policy file defined.  This sucks if you are calling a service like FriendFeed, who can’t make up their mind.
If you’re doing pure AJAX, you can get around these cross-domain restrictions by using JSON.  […]

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LDR: LdrpWalkImportDescriptor() failed to probe X for its manifest: Wix3 Installer and VS 2008 SP1

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

The other day, a BHO I wrote stopped working on Windows XP with IE7.  I quickly fired up WinDbg and saw the dreaded “LdrpWalkImportDescriptor() failed to probe X for its manifest” error.
To make a long story short, I discovered that this was caused by a bug in VS2008 SP1, and I was able to fix […]

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