Setting plain text on the clipboard is easy. Call Clipboad.SetText("Hello!"), and it works great. But what if you want to set HTML? Tempting to think you just call Clipboard.SetText ("<b>Hello!</b>", TextDataFormat.Html ). But that doesn't...

Folks may use the term "Module Timestamp" to mean both file timestamp and image header timestamp. Although they're usually very close, they're different and won't be identical. Here's a compare/contrast: File timestamp Image header timestamp...

I forgot about UpdateModuleSysmbols when I described the fake debug events sent on attach . This event is sent after LoadModule and is what delivers the symbols for dynamically generated code. This lets you debug code generated with ref.emit when you...

I've had a growing number of people inquire about how to write an interop-debugger with ICorDebug. I strongly advise anybody considering writing an interop-debugger to reconsider for reasons listed here . However, for those who can not be dissuaded, and...

I just read on thew news: Report: Insurgents Using Google Earth to Hit Coalition Bases in Iraq ; it saddened me and reminded my of an Engineering Ethics class I took back in college. As engineers, we get so caught up in delivering "cool" technology that...

I ran my #ifdef counter on the Rotor sources. The #ifdefs fall into a few categories: cross-platform, cross-Operating System, cross-compiler: . Eg, _x86_, _ppc_; PLATFORM_UNIX, Win32, _Win64, BIGENDIAN. preprocesser alternatives to #pragma once...

It's cool that VS has intellisense for C# (the feature where in the middle of typing an expression, a little window pops up listing possible things to complete the expression), and that it seems to be very consistently accurate. I've noticed that it...

I've had a growing number of people inquire about how to write an interop-debugger with ICorDebug. My goal here is to discourage you from doing that. (This reminds me of one of my college classes. On day one, the acting-Prof launched into a great sermon...

Tess tagged me. This seems like a good excuse to diverge from my consistent policy of work-related stuff. :) So here are 5 things you probably don't know about me: I went to University of Illinois and got a bachelor's in Computer Engineering and...

Pinvoke is cool in managed code, but sometimes you need to get straight at kernel32!GetProcAddress. For example, maybe you need dynamic control over which unmanaged dll you want to load. But that returns a void*, which is a major no-no in managed code...