Ben Kuhn's Blog

So, in a break from my usual technical stuff, I thought I'd talk about something else (closely related) near & dear to me. Vista is getting very close to shipping. It's exciting. People are reall in ship mode around here. Sometimes it's intense, sometimes Read More...

I'm covering this topic because I've seen a couple of drivers now that are calling CoUninitialize a few too many times and causing subsequent app failures, but the topic is probably useful for anyone doing anything related to COM. CoInitialize initializes Read More...

If you're writing a plug-in driver for Unidrv or PScript, there's a design quirk that you should be aware of, and should code around it accordingly. UnidrvUI.DLL and PS5UI.dll implement IPrintTicketProvider. That interface has a ValidatePrintTicket call. Read More...