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September 2005 - Posts

Reflections on 64-bit
We are getting really darn close to shipping Visual Studio 2005. Visual Studio 2005 is the first released VS-based debugger to support 64-bit. This is a feature that has taken an amazingly long time to ship. The first 64-bit work was done ~8 years ago. Read More...
Don't compare file names
Yesterday I talked about writing a file name comparison algorithm. There are certainly some code bases (and debuggers are certainly one of them) that need to compare file names. That being said, today I wanted to talk about why you shouldn't compare file Read More...
Comparing file names in native code
There are new recommendations for comparing strings with the 2.0 .NET Framework (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/StringsinNET20.asp ). You can now use OrdinalIgnoreCase to accurately compare file names, Read More...
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