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How does delay-loading use binding information?

March 19, 2010 Mar 19, 2010 03/19/10

Raymond Chen

In the documentation for delay-loading, there's a remark that says that the call to GetProcAddress can be avoided if there is binding information. A customer who received the explanation of why you can't delay-load kernel32 pointed out that paragraph and asked whether this means that you can delay-load kernel32 if you bind to it. (Getting ...

What is DLL import binding?

March 18, 2010 Mar 18, 2010 03/18/10

Raymond Chen

Last time, we saw howhinting is used to speed upthe resolving of imported functions.Today, we'll look at binding.Recall that the module loader resolves imports by locating thefunction in the export table of the linked-to DLLandrecording the results in the loaded module's table ofimported function addressesso that code from the ...

What is DLL import hinting?

March 17, 2010 Mar 17, 2010 03/17/10

Raymond Chen

Binding and hinting are two types of optimizations to improve the load-time performance of a module (executable or DLL). We'll start with hinting, then look at binding, and then look at how it affects delay-loading. The import table for a module contains a list of DLLs and a list of functions from that DLL which the module wishes to link to. ...

Why does my control send its notifications to the wrong window after I reparent it?

March 16, 2010 Mar 16, 2010 03/16/10

Raymond Chen

Because it's still talking to the old parent.

A window can have a parent or an owner but not both

March 15, 2010 Mar 15, 2010 03/15/10

Raymond Chen

One of the five things every Win32 programmer should know.

Simplifying context menu extensions with IExecuteCommand

March 12, 2010 Mar 12, 2010 03/12/10

Raymond Chen

The IExecuteCommand interface is a simpler form ofcontext menu extension which takes care of the annoying parts ofIContextMenu so you can focus on your area of expertise,namely, doing the actual thing the user selected,and leave the shell to doing the grunt work of managing the UI part.I've never needed a scratch shell extension before...