Sometimes scientists and researchers surprise us with new findings. Results from studies often debunk long held beliefs and many times even overturn supposedly proven facts from past scientific works. We take it all in stride, because we all know that...

Hello World! This is my first blog on MSDN - so I am going to take this opportunity to talk about the new Customer Experience Program in Whidbey. Internally, the Customer Experience Program is known as SQM (Software Quality Metrics). It is basically...

Until I found Microsoft (R) Management Strongly Typed Class Generator - MgmtClassGen.exe Microsoft (R) Management Strongly Typed Class Generator Version 1.1.4322.573 Copyright c Microsoft Corporation 1998-2002. All rights reserved. MgmtClassGen <WMIClass>...

While we are on the subject on interop , I noticed that Sonja Keserovic ( PDC talk) will be heading to the WinDays conference on the Adriatic coast! If you are in the area, it is totally worth checking out her talk. She may even do it in Croatian....

NT has a whole lot of really cool features that aren’t always obvious without REALLY looking closely at the documentation. One of my favorite is what I call “temporary” temporary files. A “temporary” temporary file is one whose storage is never...

I've got two thoughts - like plates spinning on sticks - about community right now, and forgive me if I let either of them fly off like frisbees as I cogitate on this. I was recently asked to give input on community - not in my usual “Yee-haw...

Adam Nathan spent sometime over the weekend putting up this little site pinvoke.net . It is a very cool Wiki for Win32 PInvoke signatures… I can’t wait to see what the community does with this! Cool -- Charlie Kindel picked it up as...

#ifndef NAMEDITEMLIST_H // { #define NAMEDITEMLIST_H class NamedItemList { private: class NamedItem { private: NamedItem(); public: ~NamedItem(); static HRESULT Create(const WCHAR * pszName, NamedItem * * ppNamedItem); NamedItem * m_pNext;...

#include "headers.h" NamedItemList::NamedItemList() { this->m_cBuckets = 0; this->m_Buckets = NULL; this->m_pMutex = NULL; } NamedItemList::~NamedItemList() { this->Clear(); if (NULL != this->m_Buckets) delete[] this->m_Buckets;...

#include "headers.h" Mutex::Mutex() { m_fInitialized = FALSE; } HRESULT Mutex::Create(Mutex * * ppMutex) { AssertOutPtr(ppMutex); HRESULT hr; BOOL fSuccess; DWORD error; Mutex * pMutex = NULL; pMutex = new Mutex(); if (NULL == pMutex) { hr...

#ifndef MUTEX_H // { #define MUTEX_H class Mutex { private: CRITICAL_SECTION m_criticalsection; BOOL m_fInitialized; Mutex(); public: static HRESULT Create(Mutex * * ppMutex); ~Mutex(); void Enter(void); void Leave(void); }; #endif ...

The User Interface Process (UIP) Application Block - Version 2 was recently released to MSDN on April 9 th . UIP v2 is the next version of one of the most popular application blocks created by our Patterns & Practices group . This block is a reusable...