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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:55 PM

Write simple Debug helpers to help you debug and maintain your code

Much of my time is spent using the Visual Studio debugger examining code to figure out how it works and how to fix it. When stepping through a function, the values the function uses are very useful for code understanding. The debugger shows these values
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:24 PM

How fast is interop code?

How fast is interop code? If you’re in one kind of code and your calling another, what is the cost of the interop? For example, .Net code can call native C++ code (like Windows APIs) and vice versa. Similarly with Foxpro and C++ code. .Net code is often
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Monday, August 28, 2006 5:07 PM

Create an ActiveX control using ATL that you can use from Fox, Excel, VB6, VB.Net

Creating an ActiveX control is a good exercise in understanding how one works. It also helps to have full control over its source code for learning and testing purposes. A customer asked about migrating legacy ActiveX controls over to .Net. Many controls
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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
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