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DLL Version Finder
Sometimes you need to find all locations of a particular DLL on your machine and then check the version numbers. Use Windows Search then right […]
Problems when subclassing controls
I’m developing a graph control for use in our Memory Validator software tool. Tracking a mouse One of the requirements was that we need to […]
Don’t try this at home – custom control time sink
There are times when writing a custom control will waste your time like nothing on earth. I’m going to share with you a particularly painful […]
Removing annoying ‘ceil’ : attributes not present on previous declaration warning C4985
A bug in Visual Studio 2008 when compiling for 64 bit code results in a rather odd warning message. The message is typically shown for […]
How to embed data into a resource
In this article, I will demonstrate how you can embed data into a Windows PE format executable (EXE or DLL). At the end, I will […]
Thread Validator x64 enters BETA
Thread Validator x64 is now available for beta testing. Thread Validator x64 is the 64 bit version of our successful 32 bit Thread Validator software […]
How to commit suicide – outsource your software development
Is that headline a bit too strong? I don’t think so. Allow me to explain. This article applies to any company where your main product […]
Problems building Firefox
I’ve been building Firefox on Windows recently. Without problems. But then I wanted a build with symbols and that is when the problems started. It […]
Doing good work can make you feel a bit stupid
Doing good work can make you feel a bit stupid, well that’s my mixed bag of feelings for this weekend. Here is why… Last week […]
How to prevent a memory tool from monitoring your C/C++ allocations
A little known fact is that the Microsoft C Runtime (CRT) has a feature which allows some allocations (in the debug runtime) to be tagged […]