Yves Dolce
MCS Partner ISV
It's now on https://concrt.spaces.live.com. concrt was available so as that's what's on my mind...
Date: 11/10/2009
Last month, I investigated an issue for an ISV where their code would work fine on Windows Vista but...
Date: 11/03/2009
If you wonder what I’m talking about when mentioning the compatibility section, have a look at my...
Date: 09/26/2009
This is still the same Application Manifest that you store in your Win32 Resource or put next to...
Date: 09/23/2009
Stack tracing is a very useful functionality for tracking both the causes of performance problems...
Date: 09/15/2009
https://blogs.msdn.com/yvesdolc/archive/2009/09/11/ui0detect-wls0wndh-and-a-lie.aspx In my prior to...
Date: 09/11/2009
It might interfere with your testing and after your software has crashed a couple of times, your...
Date: 08/28/2009
Or do you display any type of User Interface? Starting with Windows Vista and above, user interfaces...
Date: 08/20/2009
When a COM call is made that involves a COM Proxy or a call to CoWaitForMultipleHandles() (e.g. in a...
Date: 08/06/2009
A gentleman from Germany asked on one of our forums: “I am interested in developing native Windows 7...
Date: 08/05/2009
After reading the November '06 "Manifest and the fusion cache" blog entry that one my peers wrote, I...
Date: 05/16/2009
C:> cl /W4 /EHsc Redirection.cpp Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version...
Date: 04/21/2009
As you can read in the application cookbook: When using IFileDialog, you must use GetResult method...
Date: 01/07/2009
I was wondering and Lee Culver from the CLR Quick Response Team was kind enough to give me an...
Date: 11/21/2008
I modify some MFC user interface related code, build, run and … nothing changes! “Well, let’s...
Date: 10/30/2008
On the The OEM Ready Program page, OEM’s can download the OEM Ready Program Test Cases for Windows...
Date: 06/12/2008
A month ago, I was lucky enough to give a presentation on Isolated Applications and Side-by-side...
Date: 06/11/2008
You might have heard about it, might have seen those filenames ending with the .manifest extension,...
Date: 05/09/2008
These diagrams show the relationship of classes within the MFC, including the original classes...
Date: 03/24/2008
If you're a C++ developer and not using yet the shared_ptr<> class, you're in for a surprise:...
Date: 03/05/2008
As you might already know, there's such an article from Eric Fleegal on MSDN:...
Date: 01/24/2008
Found this interesting documents/primer on that topic:...
Date: 01/18/2008
I've installed SPB Mobile Shell, Point UI and lately TouchPal on my AT&T Tilt... I'm hungry for...
Date: 01/16/2008
On my way back from México, I read Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008. Just like Charles...
Date: 01/10/2008
Starting to play with those. So just FYE, here is what I wrote yesterday: // create the new...
Date: 12/07/2007
It's amazing what my girlfriend was able to do in so little time thanks, in part, to that simple...
Date: 11/30/2007
I really love that stuff. Check it out at https://maps.live.com. Go to Roma, try the 3D view and then...
Date: 10/15/2007
On my way to work this morning, I was listening to KEXP and heard that song. Went to KEXP 90.3 FM -...
Date: 10/09/2007
I was curious about that *nix like mode for the item ('d----') [13] gci ...
Date: 09/29/2007
This keeps being an entertaining topic: Ale Contenti and Louis Lafreniere: Understanding Exceptions...
Date: 09/24/2007
I was fed up with always having to write different code for x86 or x64 so I wrote...
Date: 09/10/2007
As usual, comments are welcomed! HResult.h #pragma once namespace Microsoft { namespace MCS {...
Date: 05/21/2007
Under CMD.EXE, I used DIR /S a lot. Under PowerShell, this would translate as gci -r –fi. So I added...
Date: 03/21/2007
Thought I would just share this new version: Function prompt { $windowsIdentity =...
Date: 03/07/2007
nor would I ever pay to get one but this site has plenty interesting ones for free:...
Date: 02/26/2007
So, this code should eventually make it to the VistaBridge Windows SDK code sample ("no official...
Date: 02/24/2007
Yesterday evening, I started to read Windows PowerShell in Action and did confirm what I had already...
Date: 02/22/2007
Nothing like using .NET Reflector. The following C# code: public class Student { public string First...
Date: 02/16/2007
Fixed some bugs (thanks Catherine) and you can [un]register your own Known Folder now: Interop.cs:...
Date: 02/14/2007
I'm still working on a managed property system wrapper but after some excellent comments from Ben...
Date: 02/02/2007
You'll find it in ObjBase.h: // IID_PPV_ARGS(ppType) // ppType is the variable of type IType that...
Date: 12/27/2006
Went with Javier and Mariana to watch it tonight. What a ride. What a beautiful way to depict...
Date: 12/13/2006
I've had the pleasure of reviewing most of the book: if you have any interest in C++/CLI, you'll...
Date: 12/06/2006
Still need to polish it but this should be in the Windwos SDK SAmples VistaBridge in the future....
Date: 11/27/2006
Just spent two wonderful hours watching that movie. I'm sure I missed a lot of the culture specific...
Date: 11/19/2006
Function Display-EnvironmentVariable {Get-ChildItem ENV: | sort-object -property Name | format-table...
Date: 11/14/2006
I don't listen enough to KEXP! Today around 1:30, I listened to a very nice tune while driving but I...
Date: 11/13/2006