November 2005 - Posts

• Mapping of .NET Assembly attributes to File Version Information Attributes.

  Posted Wednesday, November 30, 2005 12:43 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  .NET automatically generates a FileInformation resource when building the assembly. Here is a mapping of the .NET attribute to the corresponding named element in VersionInformation and the name that Windows Explorer puts on its UI. Assembly Attribute Read More by David Connell | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• Visual Studio & Zoomin.....

  Posted Thursday, November 24, 2005 11:26 AM | 0 Comments
  
  

  I used to like the old Zoomin utility that came with Visual Studio 6.... Anyway looks like this little applet is no longer shipped in Visual Studio 2003 or Visual Studio 2005. I have recently come across a replacement utility at code project - better Read More by David Connell | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• Wild card registering COM dlls

  Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 1:04 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  When developing a COM based application sometimes it’s sometimes useful to register all the DLLs/OCX at once.From a command prompt C:\develep\project\release\>for %i in (*.dll,*.ocx) do regsvr32.exe %i /sThis will try to register all dll’s even if Read More by David Connell | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• Debugging Arbitrary thread stacks in .NET

  Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:21 AM | 0 Comments
  
  

  Check out John Robbins November 05 Bugslayer article.. He has ported his excellent SUPERASSRT code from native C++ into C#. Part of his solution uses CDB.(a command line version of WinDBG)I have previously found producing minidump files very useful in Read More by David Connell | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• Explorer and Environment variables

  Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:05 AM | 0 Comments
  
  

  You can type environment variables into the the Explorer Address bar and it is expanded into its full path.Typical examples include:   Environment Variable  Meaning Example %TEMP% Temp directory C:\TEMP %TMP% Temp directory Read More by David Connell | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• Always set Warnings as Errors

  Posted Friday, November 18, 2005 4:08 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  How many of us have developed some code only to find the compiler outputs some warnings such as unused parameter, or unreachable code and just thought “yup, I’ll fix it tomorrow”. Unfortunately tomorrow never comes and the warning just get left in. Before Read More by David Connell | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• Testing for empty String

  Posted Friday, November 18, 2005 1:14 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  I was speaking with James a few days ago about strings and testing for them being empty, and as usual we had an interesting discussion. At the end of it I thought I better go off and write some test code to find out some real numbers. I investigated three Read More by David Connell | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• XP SP1/SP2 system DLL's

  Posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 9:44 AM | 0 Comments
  
  

  Last week I found out that sometimes XP SP1 dlls are labelled as xpsp2. A client had DLLs that were labelled xpsp2 for example comctl32.dll  6.0 (xpsp2.050831-1533) c:\windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft.windows .common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600. Read More by James | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• Common Controls and "invalid window class name"

  Posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 12:09 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  Last week came across a weird issue. A .NET 1.1 program was throwing up a weird exception when running on XP SP1, with a manifest. (The problem disappeared if the manifest was removed). We were sent the stack trace exception name: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception Read More by James | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• Windows Keyboard short cuts

  Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 2:45 PM | 2 Comments
  
  

  Here is a list of some of the windows key board short cuts (thanks to Tilman): Keyboard Meaning Windows key Start menu Windows key + D       Minimize all windows to Desktop Windows key + D Restore minimized windows Read More by James | 2 Comments | Comment on this post