The Old New Thing

Notes on gift card and gift certificates in the state of Washington

Today is the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season. One of my colleagues read the fine print of a gift card he received: A monthly maintenance fee of $3 applies but is waived for the first twelve months after the card is issued. Thereafter, monthly maintenance fees are waived for an additional three months if the card is used in any...

Why can't I create my dialog with DialogBox, DialogBoxParam, CreateDialog, CreateDialogParam, or the indirect versions of same?

One of the purposes of my dialog manager series was to help people diagnose problems with their dialog boxes. But since I embedded the tips inside the series body, it's hard for people to find them, and I still end up answering the same questions over and over. So here it is in a separate article that hopefully people can find. Why your ...