Been busy getting Office14 out the door. One thing keeping me busy is crashes buckets from Office 2007. When an application crashes, it will send information back as to where the program was when it crashed. These crashes are analyzed and grouped together into similar “buckets”. We take the top buckets...

I bought a place back in September and had just this week gotten things mostly settled. Then today some people knocked on my door. I opened, and there were 3 men, 2 women and baby. It sounded like the makings of some kind of movie sequel, but not the kind I wanted to be in the center of. They said...

Take this for example: #include <iostream> #include <iomanip> class Storage { public : Storage() : m_val( -1 ) {} int m_val; }; class Holder { public : Holder() : m_double( 50000 ) {} union { double m_double; struct { Storage...

Sometimes, the reward of your investigation is finding out someone else has to do the hard job of actually fixing the problem. The Background The bug I was tasked with solving was this: Add a word to a shape, double click the text, do this specific operation and the text selection disappears...

Over this last week I had to debug two issues. If you’re a college student and read this blog, you would have discovered the problems in no time. MessageBox from Nowhere As a warm up, the easy one and a new Visual Studio feature: Break All. The bug is you try and delete this special object which...