My travels with WDF

Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Peter's a topic stealing stealer person.  So rather than pout about how he's stolen my thunder, I'll just add some lightning for effect.  I'm a fan of the closing paren' being on the line with the last value.  Not on its own line.  I mean what does this really buy you?

        hr = m_Device->GetFxDevice()->CreateIoQueue (
            callback,
            Default,
            DispatchType,
            PowerManaged,
            FALSE,
            &fxQueue
            );

It's always driven me nuts.  Seriously, like the braces thing, it just looks unbalanced and it just takes up a line.  Sure in ye olden tymes of low resolution monitors, it was an aid, but we're in High Definition land now kids, let's start acting like it! ;)  Add to that the German / Vulcan in me says if you're going to get all Obsessive Compulsive about where the close paren' lives, then it should really look like this -

        hr = m_Device->GetFxDevice()->CreateIoQueue 
            (
            callback,
            Default,
            DispatchType,
            PowerManaged,
            FALSE,
            &fxQueue
            );

Nope, this is how I roll -

        hr = m_Device->GetFxDevice()->CreateIoQueue (
            callback,
            Default,
            DispatchType,
            PowerManaged,
            FALSE,
            &fxQueue);

And yes, it does drive some of the WDF people crazy because they still hold on to some of the old coding styles, but that's just tough. :P

There's really only one old style convention I try to hold to from my college days.  Not charging past 80 characters in width.  I find that using that line today helps me page face source files on a 16:10 monitor.  And at home on my 24" 16:10 monitor, there's enough space to keep the solution explorer open and docked to the environment as well.

A few people have also asked how I got the blue line down the margin of my code, fairly simple really.  It's a registry addition -

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\%VERSION%\Text Editor]
"Guides"="RGB(0,0,192) 80"

Make sure you replace %VERSION% with your Visual Studio Version (2005 is 8.0, 2008 is 9.0).

*Currently playing - Eric Johnson, Desert Rose