Nothing ventured, nothing gained
My project has 300+ remote branches for a 100-ish person team. That can't possibly be right. Here's...
Date: 05/11/2015
I had a bunch of spinning disks sitting around I wanted to stripe together as build output targets....
Date: 05/22/2014
I may have forgotten to mention it, but my expertise is not in image processing. The people...
Date: 07/25/2009
First thought – convert the picture to greyscale and increase the contrast to help any kind of...
Date: 07/18/2009
Glenn writes: "What is the c:\windows\winsxs\manifestcache\6.0.6001.18000_001c50b5_blobs.bin file...
Date: 01/13/2009
Recently, someone asked about how their code should work if a certain configuration setting was...
Date: 09/03/2008
In Windows Vista, the directory %windir%\WinSxS has much stronger protection on it than it did in...
Date: 01/02/2007
A question came up on an internal newsgroup recently - "How do I do on-demand initialization of...
Date: 04/27/2006
Manifests at resource ID 2 help simplify the lives of DLL authors who want to consume side-by-side...
Date: 01/18/2006
As explained earlier, the activation context system is implemented as a per-thread (or per-fiber)...
Date: 01/13/2006
As the number of apps in the world that use side-by-side activation (as a result of depending on the...
Date: 01/07/2006
As the Visual C++ Runtimes version 8.0 is now a side-by-side component, you may have seen what looks...
Date: 12/28/2005
Not too long ago, I was asked to provide a set of merge modules for an external team. The...
Date: 09/09/2005
One of the more problematic areas of long-lived software is the versioning and updating of shared...
Date: 08/16/2004
An area of new technology in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that didn't get nearly enough...
Date: 08/07/2004