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Creating native code C/C++ client to WCF services that uses wsHttpBinding with WWSAPI

Several developers have asked me this question and I have decided to create one blog post with the answer. If you use Windows 7 Beta version of wsutil.exe, you would see that it might not generate _CreateServiceProxy helper function in some cases for Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:51 AM by NikolaD | 0 Comments

How to fix "Cannot add event handler because code element marked as read-only" in VS2005 and VS2008

Today VS2008 SP1 pop up an error dialog when I was editing MFC dialog box in VS2008 SP1. The error was saying something like "Cannot add event handler because code element CMainDlg marked as read-only". Clearly neither .cpp nor .h file for this class Read More...
Posted Monday, September 08, 2008 8:34 PM by NikolaD | 4 Comments
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WCF in VS2008 – Hosting is required for Ctrl+F5

Here is another interesting feature of VS2008 about which I could not find any documentation about on MSDN. If we go back to the example from my last post , debugging (F5) the WCF Service Client project is going to start WCF Host Service. However running Read More...
Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 1:09 PM by NikolaD | 3 Comments

WCF in VS2008 – Basic Service and Client over HTTP channel

Looking through documentation for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) on MSDN, I am surprised to find almost none information about cool  features of VS2008 added specifically to make development with WCF in VS2008 easier. Most of topics still Read More...
Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 3:55 PM by NikolaD | 13 Comments

Using C# in C++ project with Visual Studio 2005

Today when I have been cleaning folders on my hard drive, I have found yet another demo project. I have built it sometime ago to demonstrate how how one can have C# and C++ project in one solution and link them both into one binary using C++ linker. It Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:53 PM by NikolaD | 2 Comments
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Attachment(s): Linking CSharp and CPP in one binary.zip

VS2005 SP1 does update VC++ redistributable MSMs in \common files\merge modules

I thought I should write a short post on this issue. It had been discussed before on forums and in bugs. Long story short, VS2005 SP1 does update all VC++ redistributable MSMs in \Program Files\Common Files\Merge Modules. Or I guess I should say, it is Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 5:34 PM by NikolaD | 2 Comments

VS2005 SP1 version of Visual C++ Redistributable Package is available for download.

Actually it has been available for download for several days now, but I was looking on Orcas features and completely forgot to mention it on my blog. Here they are: Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64) Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Read More...
Posted Monday, April 23, 2007 3:01 PM by NikolaD | 7 Comments

Workaround for using VS2005 SP1 version of VCRedist.EXE within a boostrapper (setup.exe)

A reader of the previous post on my blog has posted two questions about using SP1 version of VCRedist.EXE as a boostrapper package. I felt that the topic is important enough to discuss it in a dedicated post rather than comments on another post. Here Read More...
Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 9:37 AM by NikolaD | 10 Comments
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A solution to two references to different versions of CRT, MFC, ATL in one application manifest file

I have received several questions about a case when developers find two or more references to different versions of CRT or MFC or ALT libraries in application manifest. In this post I am describing root cause of the issue, the solution to the problem and possible workarounds. Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:14 PM by NikolaD | 24 Comments

Q&A on adapting VS2005 SP1 to build your applications

When VS2005 SP1 has been released, because of manifests it become more visible what version of VC++ DLLs are used at runtime by applications built with SP1. Devs have noticed that once they have built their application with VS2005 SP1, it wants to load Read More...
Posted Friday, February 09, 2007 6:17 PM by NikolaD | 10 Comments

Silent installs of VCRedist.EXE shipped with VS2005

Aaron has a post on his blog that describes way of silent install of VCRedist.EXE. I though I would cross-link it from my blog in case some folks are interested in this information. Here is the link http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/02/07/update-regarding-silent-install-of-the-vc-8-0-runtime-vcredist-packages.aspx Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:34 AM by NikolaD | 0 Comments

Junfeng Zhang describing ways of diagnosing SxS failures

Junfeng has an interesting walkthrough on how diagnose SxS failures and brief introduction of new tool available on Vista. One may find it here, http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2006/04/14/576314.aspx. Read More...
Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 4:03 PM by NikolaD | 0 Comments

Aero Wizards (Windows Vista style wizards) in MFC8 (VS2005)

Existing wizards built in MFC can be modified so that appear as Aero Wizards on Windows Vista. Here is a small demo that shows changes required to be done to wizard-generated MFC property sheet and property pages. Read More...
Posted Monday, July 10, 2006 6:13 PM by NikolaD | 2 Comments
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Attachment(s): Demo Aero Wizards And MFC Integration.zip

Calling methods of deleted object

Apparently, calling a method after object is deleted may work in some cases. In this post I briefly discuss why this works fine. Read More...
Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 3:31 PM by NikolaD | 3 Comments
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Norton WinDoctor errors about msvcr80.dll

Norton WinDoctor issuing errors about msvcr80.dll missing for files in .Net Framework 2.0 (C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\) or Visual Studio 2005. These errors can safely be ignored. Please do not copy msvcr80.dll or any other dlls to System32 or C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ folders Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 5:29 PM by NikolaD | 42 Comments
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