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New Phoenix RDK Released!

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Hot off the presses, the May 2006 Phoenix RDK has been released.  Have fun with it, and give us feedback if you can!

https://research.microsoft.com/phoenix/default.aspx

And yes, I do actually have posts with some content coming up.  I've just been swamped with my day to day stuff.

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  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2006
    i just wanted to say that your comment from several months ago about the DLL error when trying to compile OpenMP-enabled code was a huge timesaver. thanks so much for putting that on your blog.
  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2006
    Glad to hear it helped Warren.
  • Anonymous
    August 18, 2006
    Hi,

    I downloaded the latest RDK and compiled the Phx-Explorer.exe (C#). Questions:

    1) It looks like Phoenix is using imagehlp to load the symbols. Since it is possible to do that myself using imagehlp, are there anythings that Phoenix offers besides doing all those works for us ?

    2) I noticed that in bin directory of Phx-Explorer, there is Phx-Explorer.vshost.exe. What is the exe used for ?

    3) When I tried to load regedit, etc, it throws exceptions. Is it because it didn't compile with /Zi and /Profile ??

    4) Why is the project named Phoenix ?

    Thanks
  • Anonymous
    August 18, 2006
    I downloaded the latest RDK and has some questions:

    1) I compiled Phx-Explorer (C#) sample program and tried to open regedit, etc and got an exception. Is it because regedit, etc were NOT compile with /Zi and /Profile ?

    2) It looks like Phoenix uses ImageHlp.dll to load the symbols? If so, what other features does Phoenix provides because it wraps imagehlp.dll?

    3) Why is the project named Phoenix ?


    Thanks
  • Anonymous
    August 21, 2006
    Hi nativecpp.  I'll try to answer some of the questions.

    1) Yes, the application must be built with /Zi and /PROFILE AND you must have the PDB file.  We use some of the debug info to properly raise the binary.

    2) I'd have to follow-up with someone who worked on the symbol loader.  Just curious as to why it matters whether the functionality comes from imagehlp or some other mechanism?  

    3) There was a rather elaborate naming process that the team went through, but for some reason people liked Phoenix.  The whole rebirth this seems to resonate with people.  Personally, I like "Codename: Goren" myself.
  • Anonymous
    August 21, 2006
    Thanks for the reply.

    1) As for imagehlp, I am just curious :-)
    2) BTW, I still try to see how Phoenix can be used? Can you give me some examples ???


    Thanks
  • Anonymous
    May 21, 2007
    hi there... I have download the phoenix rdk, but I still confused about how to add path to environment variable? Could you please tell me how? Regards, thanks.