Diagnosis of WinSxS failures

I ran across this very handy blog post today regarding debugging WinSxS load failures. Similar to the Fusion Log tool I've talked about before for .NET, this new tool, called sxstrace, reports Fusion's attempts to locate your unmanaged assemblies.

Unfortunately, it appears that the tool is only available on Windows Vista - but there is some integration with the event logger, even back on XP.

For those of you planning on building CINs or DLLs in Visual Studio 2005 that you want to load into LabVIEW, this is one to remember.