Heap allocation stack traces are useless when using certain versions of the MSVC runtime. Is it possible to modify and rebuild MSVCR80 to avoid this?
Category Archives: Software Development
iPad – The rise of the naturalistic user interface
Apple’s iPad applications make use of real-world objects in their user interfaces: books, newspapers, address books. What is it about the iPad that makes it a good platform for this kind of UI?
Where’s my window?
Where’s my window gone? I’m sure I left it around here somewhere…
Why the Peggle mobile experience beats GTA
Peggle and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Two fantastic and very different iPhone games, but how is your enjoyment of them affected by the platform on which they run?
Beware of using stack-based COM objects from .NET
COM objects that don’t have the expected lifetime can cause chaos when combined with .NETs garbage collection system.
A WPF custom control in F#
What F# language and syntax features are required to implement a fundamentally object-oriented WPF custom control?
Don’t do anything in DllMain… Please
Thinking of adding some code to your DLLs DllMain function? STOP!
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Programming is like a bad analogy
The joy of programming can be a difficult thing to describe. I take a look at some of the bizarre things people have compared it to.
Pinned DataTips in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
I’ve just noticed a nice little feature in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2: pinned DataTips. Values displayed in the debugger as you hover over a variable can now be pinned in place and remain aligned with the source. They can even have annotations added… Tasty!
