It's now on http://concrt.spaces.live.com . concrt was available so as that's what's on my mind nowadays, I decided to pick that. This won't be just about ConcRT! :-)

Last month, I investigated an issue for an ISV where their code would work fine on Windows Vista but fail on Windows 7. Not very commom! The cause? CultureInfo .GetCultures( CultureTypes .AllCultures & ~ CultureTypes .NeutralCultures) returns...

If you wonder what I’m talking about when mentioning the compatibility section, have a look at my previous blog entry . To start with, I added a Compatibility.manifest file to my project: <? xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " utf-8 " standalone...

This is still the same Application Manifest that you store in your Win32 Resource or put next to your executable (i.e. "MyExecutable.exe.manifest" ). Under Windows XP, this manifest allowed you to create Isolated Applications and Side-by-side Assemblies...

Stack tracing is a very useful functionality for tracking both the causes of performance problems and reliability issues. With F rame P ointer O ptimization disabled , one can easily build the call chain by walking through the stack frame pointers. ...

http://blogs.msdn.com/yvesdolc/archive/2009/09/11/ui0detect-wls0wndh-and-a-lie.aspx In my prior to last entry , I took a shortcut: your Windows Service user interface can be seen on Windows Vista and still on Windows 7. But beware, it’s not by default...

It might interfere with your testing and after your software has crashed a couple of times, your application might start to no longer behave erratically. As JohnFrum wrote: “ I learned about this feature a few weeks ago while debugging my service...

Or do you display any type of User Interface? Starting with Windows Vista and above, user interfaces generated by Windows services can’t be seen. And even worst, your service could be stuck waiting for some user input that the user cannot give as she...

When a COM call is made that involves a COM Proxy or a call to CoWaitForMultipleHandles () (e.g. in a .NET Runtime Callable Wrapper ), you could see this behavior where you would not have under pre-Vista versions of Windows. We made the design change...

A gentleman from Germany asked on one of our forums: “I am interested in developing native Windows 7 Apps (64 and 32-Bit) with Visual C/C++. How can I do this?” You’ll first need a C++ compiler. You can find that on the MSDN Visual C++ page...

After reading the November '06 " Manifest and the fusion cache " blog entry that one my peers wrote, I immediately thought about the *nix style TOUCH utility. But it's not available out-of-the-box on Windows... I was surprised to learn that the Updating...

C:> cl /W4 /EHsc Redirection.cpp Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 15.00.30729.01 for 80x86 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Redirection.cpp Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 9.00.30729.01...

As you can read in the application cookbook: When using IFileDialog, you must use GetResult method instead of combination of GetFolder and GetFilename. Use the Shell APIs where possible to interact with and manipulate items in the Shell Namespace...

I was wondering and Lee Culver from the CLR Quick Response Team was kind enough to give me an answer. The output below is for CLR V4 so the format might be a bit different than V2. " The debugging session below was identical in v2 except for SOS formatting...

I modify some MFC user interface related code, build, run and … nothing changes! “Well, let’s manually delete the Debug directories and all generated files, then rebuild.” I can still see my initial user interface layout! I go back to the code; double...

On the The OEM Ready Program page, OEM’s can download the OEM Ready Program Test Cases for Windows Vista . The 7 th test is to verify that the application is Restart Manager Aware. To test this, you must use RMTool.exe but where do you get it from...

A month ago, I was lucky enough to give a presentation on Isolated Applications and Side-by-side Assemblies to an ISV . Later, Maarten asked me if the side-by-side cache was protected by Windows Resource Protection . I checked and answered (“Yes”) but...

You might have heard about it, might have seen those filenames ending with the .manifest extension, heard about the side-by-side directory ($env:windir\WinSxS), seen those project properties in Visual C++ but have you ever done anything explicit with...

These diagrams show the relationship of classes within the MFC, including the original classes released with Visual Studio 2008 plus the additional classes provided with the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack . http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...

If you're a C++ developer and not using yet the shared_ptr<> class, you're in for a surprise: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=385821 The discussion below the video is also quite interesting: something like the "GC" camp vs. the...

As you might already know, there's such an article from Eric Fleegal on MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa289157(vs.71).aspx . Dave, a peer of mine, asked a related question to the C++ team and I thought the answer would be valuable...

I very clearly remember when Michael Brecker started his concert by faking the sound of Miles Davis with an “electronic/synthesizer saxophone”, myriad of wires hanging everywhere. I was sitting at less than 2 meters in front of him, on the stage, in the...

Found this interesting documents/primer on that topic: http://www.osl.iu.edu/~dgregor/cpp/variadic-templates.pdf I wonder when we'll see this in our own compiler and thus have efficient make_shared<T> and allocate_shared<T> . Bonne fin...

I've installed SPB Mobile Shell , Point UI and lately TouchPal on my AT&T Tilt ... I'm hungry for any mechanism to make the use of my mobile phone easier/safer... I decided to stick with SPB Mobile Shell for now. I find this video quite interesting...

On my way back from México, I read Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 . Just like Charles Petzold first introducing WPF through code (and not markup), I like Joseph Rattz’ introduction of LINQ through [extension] methods first instead of the...