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Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:36 PM

Rory Blyth posts his music

I was listening to Charles Petzold conversing with Carl Franklin and Rory Blyth on .NET Rocks (see http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks/ ) and heard a tune I like (see http://www.neopoleon.com/blog/music.aspx ). I recognize some Simple Minds and U2 influences
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Monday, August 23, 2004 1:32 PM

Stan on "Translation Guide: Moving Your Programs from Managed Extensions for C++ to C++/CLI"

Looks like Stan is busy writing these days: thanks! http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/TransGuide.asp
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Sunday, August 22, 2004 11:49 AM

Visual C++ 6.0 mainstream support will end on September 30, 2004

I still see a lot of people running VC++ 6.0 [SP3|SP4| SP5 ]. As of today, the status is that mainstream support will end on September 30, 2004! Check http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];LifeAn11 for more information.
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Friday, August 20, 2004 10:39 AM

Cosmic Recycling: We are Made of Stars

Yesterday evening, I caught the end of that lecture on UWTV : fascinating and entertaining! From http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.asp?rid=1067 : Scientists today understand the universe in a very different way than they did 50 years ago. They
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Monday, August 16, 2004 8:09 PM

Online Chat: Visual C++ 2005 Library and Runtime Enhancements

The next release of Visual C++ includes many new and enhanced libraries which improve security, support managed code and integrate existing applications and components. The CRT and STL fully support managed applications. There is a new secure CRT and
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Monday, August 16, 2004 8:08 PM

Online Chat: Upgrading COM Applications to .NET with Visual C++ 2005

Many applications consume and expose COM interfaces as their object models today. And .NET has tools such as tlbimp, tlbexp and COM Interop support for RCWs and CCWs to help integrate managed code with COM objects. In addition, there are also a number
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Monday, August 16, 2004 8:43 AM

Stan Lippman on STL.NET

The first article I've seen on that topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/stl-netprimer.asp?frame=true
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Thursday, August 12, 2004 3:14 PM

The Sopranos

I started to watch that series during the second half of season 4, this year. Last time I was that hooked to the TV was during Jean-Luc Picard reign... Long before that, it was The Prisoner , The Avengers and then way before that, Captain Kirk reign.
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Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:50 PM

Matt Pietrek on 'Debugging application startup when you don't directly launch the app'

I did not know about that Image File Execution Options key: http://blogs.msdn.com/matt_pietrek/archive/2004/08/12/213596.aspx
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Wednesday, August 11, 2004 6:46 PM

Online Chat: Visual C++ 2005 Beta (Aug 19)

Here it is: Join the Visual C++ team to discuss your questions and comments on the Beta release of Visual C++ 2005. Whether you are a first-time user of the Visual C++ Express Edition Beta ( http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/visualc ) or an experienced
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Monday, August 09, 2004 12:55 PM

Visual C++ 2005 Beta 1 - Invoking MSIL Functions Under Loader Lock

Scott Currie discusses fixing a problem with Invoking MSIL Functions under Loader Lock in Microsoft Visual C++ 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/debgb1LdLk.asp
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Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:20 AM

C++: The Most Powerful Language for .NET Framework Programming

Well, I did not say it but Kenny did on http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/VS05Cplus.asp . H e's doing a lot better job than what I did in The new C++/CLI syntax in VC++ 2005 .
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Wednesday, August 04, 2004 12:27 PM

PREfast in Visual Studio.NET 2005 Team System

“ Prefast is a static analysis tool that provides information to developers about possible defects in their C/C++ source code. Common coding errors reported by Prefast include buffer overrun, un-initialized memory, null pointer dereference, memory
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Sunday, August 01, 2004 8:59 PM

Lookout for Outlook

I swear it's not because we just acquired the company! I love this add-in: http://www.lookoutsoft.com/Lookout/ . Lookout is lightning-fast search for your email, files, and desktop works with Microsoft Outlook ® .
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