The best solution to reducing the associated tech support and maintenance costs is to find a way to detect and repair the problems, rather than focus on prevention. DLL Hell has become a widely recognized problem over the past few years, and you can expect to see more and more companies offering solutions. Desaware has taken the lead in identifying and warning people about this problem. Since 1994, Desaware has pioneered solutions for addressing this problem through its award winning VersionStamper product. Developers can specify how and when to perform file verification based on the needs of their application or groups of applications.
Developers can specify how to resolve the problems that are detected.
VersionStamper supports remote diagnostics VersionStamper supports a variety of component conflict notifications. VersionStamper supports automatic software updates Desaware's VersionStamper was developed from the ground up to detect file conflicts. VersionStamper allows you to specify a list of files and the files attributes to verify. You decide what types of conflicts to look for, how and when to perform the file verification, and how to resolve problems that are detected VersionStamper includes a number of sample conflict detection code templates that you can use to customize your own solutions. These approaches include displaying a warning to your users, or sending an Email message with detailed configuration information to a central help desk or technical support contact.