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Thursday, May 03, 2007 4:50 PM

Vista Aero DWM seems to optimize out GDI paint calls

In this post: Foxpro Menu items, combo boxes not refreshing selected item under Aero in Vista I describe a problem in Foxpro where menu and list items that are supposed to be non-selected aren’t painted correctly. I described a workaround: call the GdiSetBatchLimit
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 7 Comments
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 2:30 PM

Windows Vista Aero BorderStyle Paint problem as non Administrator

Above is an image of an inner form (from the C++ project below) before and after I dragged it a little bit up and left to obscure the title bar, then back to the original position. You can see the title, icon, close/minimize buttons were not painted correctly.
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 8 Comments
Monday, February 06, 2006 1:03 PM

Customize the VS debugger display of your data

As a software developer, I spend much of my time looking at code, learning how it works, and figuring out how to modify or fix it. A very good tool to help examine code is the Visual Studio debugger. (Even if you’re not a hard core programmer, the following
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 12 Comments
Wednesday, November 09, 2005 10:00 PM

Windows Security and how it affects running generated code

Here I described how VFP generates executable code and runs it for early and late binding COM clients and implementing COM interfaces. However, there is an important issue with generating and running executable code in the same process. A computer has
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 6 Comments
Wednesday, June 30, 2004 4:36 PM

What is a C0000005 crash?

In my blog about Dr. Watson I talked about product crashes. What is an example of a crash? How destructive is it? Here’s a simple example. MyFunction takes a string parameter and calculates its length MyFunction ( char * StringParam) { int nlen;
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