In talking with our support engineer it's just become more muddled. I'm pretty sure now actually that the customer does not want to build a script engine, but whether they want to build a script editor, a script host or a script debugger is unclear. ...

#include "headers.h" // // Helper methods // static long g_cReferences = 0; static long g_cLocks = 0; static HMODULE g_hmodule = NULL; static const WCHAR * pszEngineName = L"SimpleScript"; static const WCHAR * pszOLEScript = L"OLEScript"; static...

#include "headers.h" static BOOL IsGoodPtr(void * pv, ULONG cb, DWORD dwFlags) { DWORD dwSize; MEMORY_BASIC_INFORMATION meminfo; if (NULL == pv) return FALSE; memset(&meminfo, 0x00, sizeof meminfo); dwSize = VirtualQuery(pv, &meminfo...

#ifndef ASSERT_H // { #define ASSERT_H extern BOOL Debugger(); extern BOOL AssertProc(const char *pszFile, long lwLine, const char *pszMsg); extern BOOL IsValidReadString(const WCHAR * psz); extern BOOL IsValidReadStringN(const WCHAR * psz); extern BOOL...

#include <initguid.h> #include <activscp.h> #include "guids.h"

#ifndef GUIDS_H // { #define GUIDS_H DEFINE_GUID(CLSID_SimpleScript, 0x5ff86f82, 0x18fb, 0x4aff, 0x98, 0xba, 0x20, 0xfd, 0xf2, 0x48, 0xa9, 0x24); #endif // GUIDS_H }

#ifndef HEADERS_H // { #define HEADERS_H // InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount requires WinNT 4.0 SP3 or better. // UNDONE: Add code to registration, etc, that verifies that we are on the // UNDONE: right OS. #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0403 #include...

LIBRARY SIMPLESCRIPT EXPORTS DllGetClassObject PRIVATE DllRegisterServer PRIVATE DllUnregisterServer PRIVATE DllCanUnloadNow PRIVATE

I'm going to embark upon something ambitious here. I got an email from Mike, our friendly support engineer on the east coast with the subject line " Need lots of info ". Apparently he was contacted by a customer who wants to implement a new script engine...

I've got all these little rants queued up for days when I'm too busy to post. And Raymond has all these little articles queued up while he's on vacation. And in one of those weird Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem moments of synchronicity, Raymond just beat...

Yesterday I was taking a break from manning the Visual Studio booth down here at VSLive, and kind of wandering around saying hi to people. Had a nice chat with Mike , talked to some customers, checked out what the latest crop of productivity tools looks...

I'm still at VSLive. Both my talks are done, so its just booth duty from here on in. The talks went... OK. Running VSTO on top of Virtual PC on a laptop was too slow; we'll have to devirtualize that for the next time. Unfortunately they put me in the...

I'm off to VSLive! in San Francisco , where I'll be giving a talk on Wednesday introducing VSTO2 and a talk on Thursday about security issues involving Office documents and managed code. I'll also be manning the Visual Studio portion of the Microsoft...

I'm insanely busy prepping for VSLive! today, so, once more, I complain about coding practice that are drivin' me nuts . But first: why do pirates dislike Johnny Depp's Oscar-nominated performance in "Pirates of the Caribbean"? Because it wasn't...

Mike Schinkel takes even longer to get to the point than I do, and that's saying something! Mike tells a long story about another application of partial order sorts , and asks how to modify the partial order sort algorithm so that it has a new property...

Well that got quite a few lengthy and high quality comments in a short time. To briefly follow up on some of them: Professor Ragde queries: Erstwhile professor? I am still a professor. English has ambiguous lexical scoping. When...

Just a couple random notes today, following up on a few threads and reminiscing about school days. My old friend and erstwhile professor Prabhakar Ragde has some good comments and related links on my recent posting about trends in Computer...

My old friend Rob made some comments on yesterday's post which deserve to be called out: Consider a software application that is extensible with plug-ins. If some of the plug-ins are dependent on others, then a partial sort is required to...

I thought I might blog briefly on an interesting algorithm which can be implemented very elegantly in JScript, but a lot of scripters don't know about. Most scripters know about the sort method on the Array prototype -- you give it an array...

Another quick non-technical post today. I was reading KC Lemson's blog and she mentioned that she's considering laser in-situ keratomileusis , also known as LASIK. I started to email her my experience, but then realized that I might as well...

I don't know about you guys, but here at Microsoft we hear a lot about “diversity in the workforce“. It's something I think about rather a lot -- it's hard not to when you work with smart, talented people who were born quite literally all...

Mike Schinkel writes a long, rambling blog about a long, rambling conversation we had regarding VBScript, novice programmers and .NET . I don't have time to respond at length today, but I wanted to make a couple quick points. First...

One of my former housemates was fond of pirate jokes, as am I . My personal favourite of his was: A pirate walks into a bar, and the barkeep says " Excuse me, cap'n, but did you know that you've got your ship's wheel stuck in your pantaloons ?"...

In double-checking today's entry, I see that I wrote: Saying that script is bad because spotty teenage vandals use it is obviously specious . Hmm. Is there such a thing as “obviously specious”, or is that an oxymoron?

I think it was Gary Larson who said that the fundamental question of biology is " If I put these two life forms in a jar, which one wins?" The very nature of the question presupposes a bunch of stuff -- that there are winners and losers, that any two...