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Monday, April 27, 2009 7:21 AM

Removing songs from disk with Rating 1 in SongBird.

Note: This is a simple ‘Week-end adventure’, to make a tedious task into automated, fast and reliable one. The output may not be completely bug free. Problem Description: I have ‘a lot’ of songs in my media library and I use SongBird player to listen
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Friday, August 01, 2008 7:57 PM

2 years.. and counting!

Yes, today I finish 2 years working with my Dream company ! Its been great journey so far, and I guess company has given me everything that I ever dreamed for (except night job, but efforts are in motion to find some resolution to that! ) On development
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:50 AM

Look at the operating system version and SP details from the dump in WinDbg..

This is a very common question, we encounter almost all the times. Just imagine a situation, we have got a memory dump from somewhere and want to see what operating system which is run there and what SP is installed.. For this, there is a very simple
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:46 AM

How to change value of register when doing live debugging with Windbg?

Windbg has not only registers reading functionality but it can also modify registers when doing live debugging.. Its really useful sometimes to modify the register values and take different path to check for particular code branch.. You can modify the
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Friday, May 30, 2008 1:38 AM

Collection of SysInternal Tools

The team has just released a new subdomain that has neat and clean list of all SysInternal Tools, ready for you!! Take a look, http://live.sysinternals.com Stay tuned..
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:29 AM

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is available!!

I've been using Visual Studio 2008 from few months.. Its really a great improvement over productivity.. I love new features and speedy IDE. Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 contains not only bug fixes but also lots of new features! Along with .NET
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:26 PM

What is better way of keeping an eye on last win32 error while debugging?

I have found it necessary many times to keep an eye on last win32 error, while using Win32 APIs in code! (Calling GetLastError() after each API usage is not feasible solution!).. In Visual Studio they have provided a very good small feature. You can write
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:04 PM

How can I check the details about Process Token while debugging in Visual Studio?

Visual Studio 2005 onwards, watch window has got a pseudo register for investigating the details about process token. So, all you have to do is, just start debugging and write "$user" in watch window, Its interesting to look at expanded view
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:37 AM

CoCreateInstance returns 0x80080005 for Visual Studio 2008 based ATL service??

I just worked with a customer who was facing interesting issue. He was getting 0x80080005 at client when he calls CoCreateInstance. The COM component is implemented within an ATL Service which is running on the same machine (we are not hitting wire/network).
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:14 AM

VC++ Debug C++ Runtime Files..

How many times have you tried to run the debug build of your project on a test machine where you don't have Visual Studio installed, and faced issues? Issues like, For binaries built in debug configuration with Visual Studio 2005.. Activation context
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Monday, April 28, 2008 11:25 PM

COM Interop Sample : Using C# DLL from C++ application

I have found many people who are beginning to learn COM Interop, looking for a sample application that explains how to use C# DLL from C++ application. Here is one sample that I developed (SLN file is in VS2008 format!) Stay tuned..
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Monday, April 28, 2008 7:55 PM

How to register .NET Assembly for COM Interop ?

Do you want to use your .NET DLL (assembly) from VB6 or C++ application (native code) ? Yes, you can do that using COM Interop. As per COM rules, you need to get your assembly registered on system (in Registry, yes, thats how COM works!). To get an assembly
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:09 PM

Live Mesh Technology Preview Available!

I am very excited to tell that Microsoft announced Live Mesh Technology preview today. Its awesome piece of system, and will surely increase your productivity if you have multiple machines/devices at multiple location! I just love it!!! More details here
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Friday, November 30, 2007 6:00 AM

Parallel Computing Initiative..

As a part of Parallel computing initiative at Microsoft, we just released Parallel Extensions to .NET Framework 3.5 Community Technology Preview (CTP) which can be downloaded from here . Also, at MSDN, there is new section dedicated to ideas, technology,
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:15 PM

Visual Studio 2005 debugging trick..

Just now, I found a trick in Visual Studio 2005 to debug pointers in better way. You can ',n' in watch window where 'n' is number of elements to display. I think following snapshot is self explanatory.. Stay tuned..
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