I was looking for some software to create MSI patches. Install Shiled 12 has some support, but it seemed to be a little complex. I came acrosss the MSI Patch Builder, which looked nice. But thier product docuemntation is pathetic. There are no examples and the link pointed to some MSI articles on MSDN. If somebody is new to creating MSI and stuffs like that, it will take some time to understand what this product will do. After understanding the patch creation process in Install Shiled a bit, I got...
I am working on a huge application where the business components are in COM-ATL and the data access is thru ADO to SQL. We are having major scalability issues with huge user connections and then it was time to see whether are we using the ADO pooling in the right way. But to my surprise I noted that there is no way to monitor the ADO pool and its performance. 1. You cannot set the max pool size. 2. There is no way to disable the pooling 3. You cannot know whether non-pooled connections are happening...