Glossary
- MSBuild
The Microsoft Build Engine, an XML based build system used internally by Microsoft Visual Studio.
- MSVC
Microsoft Visual C++ compiler (cl.exe) used by Visual Studio.
- Patch
The Recode generated DLL that gets injected into the address space of the target process containing the updated code.
- Structured Exceptions
Also known as Asynchronous Exceptions. This is a Microsoft specific feature used to handle exceptions in C code and system functions. It can also be used to handle low-level errors such as access violations and floating point exceptions. The Recode Protect feature uses Structured Exception Handling (SEH) to recover from code errors.
- VSIX
Visual Studio Installer for eXtensions. The standard way of packaging and installing Visual Studio extensions such as Recode.