March 31, 2011Mar 31, 201103/31/11It’s that time again: Linking to other Microsoft bloggers.
Alphabet soup on the Office Communicator blog. Sample sentence: “OCPE uses AutoDiscover and EWS on the CAS servers.”
Alfred Thompson points out that Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 is available for free download. It’s like a graphing calculator on steroids.
March 31, 2011Mar 31, 201103/31/11A customer had a main program (let’s call it A) and a helper program (let’s call it B), and the customer wanted and wanted B to act like a modal dialog relative to A.
When B is launched, we disable A’s window and then call SetForegroundWindow(hwndB) to simulate a modal dialog.
March 30, 2011Mar 30, 201103/30/11A customer submitted the following question:
We are developing automated tests for our application. Among other things, our application uses property sheets, which means that the name of the tab is stored as the title of the dialog template resource. Since we want our automated tests to run on all language versions of our application,
March 29, 2011Mar 29, 201103/29/11A customer reported that a shortcut they deployed to their employees’ desktops was triggering unwanted server traffic.
My customer deploys a shortcut on %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop, and this shortcut points to an EXE file on a remote server. Once a local user logs on,
March 28, 2011Mar 28, 201103/28/11Igor Levicki wants somebody from Microsoft to explain why BOOL was defined as a signed int instead of an unsigned int.
You don’t need to work for Microsoft to figure this out. All the information you need is publically available.
Quoting from K&R Classic,
March 25, 2011Mar 25, 201103/25/11Next week, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra performs the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony, but the people responsible for the symphony’s radio advertisements don’t realize that.
As the strains of the symphony resound in the background, the announcer proudly announces that tickets are still available for “Cézanne’s Organ Symphony.”
March 25, 2011Mar 25, 201103/25/11A customer wanted help with monitoring the lifetime of an
Explorer window.
We want to launch a copy of Explorer to open a specific folder,
then wait until the user closes the folder before continuing.
We tried launching a copy of Explorer with the folder on the
command line,
March 24, 2011Mar 24, 201103/24/11A customer needed to generate a GUID for each instance of a hardware device they encounter:
The serial number for each device is 20 bits long (four and a half bytes). We need to generate a GUID based on each device,
March 23, 2011Mar 23, 201103/23/11A customer was having problems with the WaitForMultipleObjects function:
We are looking for a clarification of the behavior of WaitForMultipleObjects. We have a thread that waits on two handles (call them Handle1 and Handle2) with WaitForMultipleObjects, bWaitAll = FALSE. Under certain conditions,
March 22, 2011Mar 22, 201103/22/11Under Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders, there is a message to registry snoopers: The first value is called “!Do not use this registry key” and the associated data is the message “Use the SHGetFolderPath or SHGetKnownFolderPath function instead.”
I added that message.
The long and sad story of the Shell Folders key explains that the registry key exists only to retain backward compatibility with four programs written in 1994.
