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Richard Cook

How VSTO will change your life (for the better, that is)

November 2008 - Posts

Languages: Objective-C this time
I switched on my Mac for the first time in about three months this evening. I had a hankering to do some Objective-C. This is a language I've tried to master before but without huge amounts of success. However, with my renewed interest in late binding Read More...
Multimethods in C# revisited
So I thought long and hard about my initial stab at a multimethod implementation for C#. It was a reasonable proof of concept. However, I read some more on the subject of multiple dispatch and the visitor pattern and came up with a few additional ideas. Read More...
Multimethods in C#
I read a couple of interesting articles on the subject of multiple dispatch last night. The first, entitled Visitor Pattern Considered Useless , starts by describing the visitor design pattern with particular emphasis on how it can enable the definition Read More...
Dump out all installed products and components
Windows Installer APIs tamed in managed code: use this to dump out a list of all installed product codes and component IDs. Quick and easy. Good night everybody! Read More...
STL functors, scoped handles and how we can use them in Windows programming
Firstly, it's election day so get out there and vote! Secondly, I went to bed last night and dreamt about functors! Last Friday I code-reviewed some changes made by one of my colleagues and his code just happened to use some STL containers and all sorts Read More...
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