February, 2008

If you check the CRT source code (inside VC\crt\src\crt0.c ) you can find an interesting function check_managed_app() that returns 1 if managed app, 0 if not based on the COM Runtime Descriptor in the Image Data Directory of the PE or PE+ header. ...

It is very rare that we come across a well-designed library every day, and even rare that we get a chance to work on them on daily basis. While it is hard to define what makes any given library "well-designed", it is rather easy to identify what is not...

MItDag offers a convenient way to iterate over the DAG nodes in any Maya scene, but not in a way that is useful for populating the visited nodes in a Windows tree control. This is because MItDag gives a linear list of nodes that make it a little...

If you are encountering an empty message box followed by a browse folder dialog in for MLibrary::initialize Open Maya SDK 2008, then the chances are that you can resolve the problem by defining the MAYA_LOCATION environment variable. Define the MAYA_LOCATION...