The Old New Thing

August 13, 2009 - The Old New Thing

Landing the Space Shuttle is hard enough as it is

August 13, 2009 Aug 13, 2009 08/13/09
Raymond Chen
I was at The Museum of Flight and was waiting my turn at the Space Shuttle landing simulator. A six-year-old settled into the control seat, and as the simulation began I heard him ask his father, "Where are the bad guys?" I'm pretty sure the Space Shuttle doesn't come with onboard missiles. That didn't stop the kid from pressing the ...

Common gotchas when writing your own p/invoke

August 13, 2009 Aug 13, 2009 08/13/09
Raymond Chen
If you're looking to get into some p/invoke action, you'd be well-served to check out the pinvoke wiki to see if somebody else has done it too. If what you need isn't there, you may end up forced to write your own, and here are some gotchas I've seen people run into: C++ and Win32 are not the same as C# (aka ). In Win32...