Thinking of adding some code to your DLLs DllMain function? STOP!
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Don’t do anything in DllMain… Please
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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!
Comparing lambdas in C++ and F#
Lambdas in C++ and F#: compare and contrast.
FormatException in WPF DataBinding
A FormatException is generated by the WPF DataBinding diagnostics if the original exception text contains curly brackets.
Also posted in .NET, Uncategorized, Visual Studio, Windows Tagged .NET, DataBinding, FormatException, visualstudio, wpf Leave a comment
The 7 signs your UI was created by a programmer
Programmers are notoriously bad at creating good user interfaces. How can you tell if your app was designed by a programmer? (Hint: it’s easy).
Getting IUnknown from __ComObject
How do you find the unmanaged COM object that’s being referenced by a .NET object?
Finding the largest free block of address space
I’ve been seeing problems recently with fragmented virtual address space. During the lifetime of a process, bits and pieces of memory are allocated throughout the 2GB 32-bit address space to such an extent that large contiguous blocks of free space are no longer available. If anything subsequently requires a large block of memory (like, for [...]
Also posted in WinDbg, Windows Tagged address space, c++, perfmon, private bytes, win32, WinDbg 2 Comments
Diagnosing out of memory errors with VMMap – Part 2
(I had problems with WordPress choking on this long post, so I’ve split it into 2 parts. The first part is here. This is the second part).
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