January 31, 2014Jan 31, 201401/31/14This upcoming Sunday is the biggest sports day of the year in the United States: The championship game for the professional American Football league. The entire country grinds to a halt.
The most famous secondary effect of the game is the commercials.
January 31, 2014Jan 31, 201401/31/14A programmer on the GHI team
(yes,
the same GHI team)
reported that they were hitting an assertion failure
using an internal library and asked for help debugging it.
// All factories should be unregistered by now
assert(m_pFactoryList->IsEmpty());
“Can somebody help me figure out which factory it is that
did not get unregistered?”
January 30, 2014Jan 30, 201401/30/14A customer asked what to me was a very strange question.
Can process IDs be greater than 64000?
Because we’re seeing process IDs greater than 64000.
This is a strange question because the answer is right there:
You’re seeing process IDs greater than 64000
with your very own eyes.
January 29, 2014Jan 29, 201401/29/14The error Optional parameter missing sounds awfully paradoxical, doesn’t it. I mean, if the parameter is optional, why are you complaining that it’s missing?
This KB article explains why, specifically, the part that says, “If a parameter is omitted, the calling program must…”.
January 28, 2014Jan 28, 201401/28/14A customer reported that when their application called the GetVersionEx function, it sometimes reported incorrect values. Specifically, the logs collected from clients shows that the first time the program was run on a Windows 7 machine, the operating system was correctly reported as 6.1.7600 (Windows 7),
January 27, 2014Jan 27, 201401/27/14The pocket reference guide for 2014/2015.
January 27, 2014Jan 27, 201401/27/14Instead of a Little Program today, I’m going to answer a Little Question.
This is a common beginner question,
but I figure I’ll just spell it out right here for posterity.
First of all, you probably noticed that you can’t do this:
class CountWindows
{
public:
int CountThem();
January 24, 2014Jan 24, 201401/24/14Jan-Keno Janssen writes about technology for German computer magazine c’t. He covered the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month. And that means horrific traffic that turns a trip from the hotel to the convention center into an hour-long ordeal.
January 24, 2014Jan 24, 201401/24/14A programmer on the GHI team
reported that they were hitting an assertion failure
using an internal library and asked for help debugging it.
ABC!CFactoryBase::AssertZeroRef+0x2e
ABC!CFactoryBase::Unregister+0x1c
ABC!CWidgetFactory::Unregister+0x2d
DEF!CWidgetManager::Uninitialize+0x4a
DEF!CWidget::`scalar deleting destructor’+0xd
ABC!operator delete()+0x6
ABC!CFrame::Destroy+0xb
ABC!CFrame::WndProc+0x362
USER32!InternalCallWinProc+0x23
USER32!UserCallWinProcCheckWow+0x121
USER32!DispatchClientMessage+0x12d
USER32!__fnEMPTY+0x24
ntdll!KiUserCallbackDispatcher+0x3d
USER32!NtUserDestroyWindow+0xa
ABC!CFrame::WndProc+0x34
USER32!InternalCallWinProc+0x23
USER32!UserCallWinProcCheckWow+0x121
USER32!DispatchMessageWorker+0x411
USER32!DispatchMessageW+0x10
GHI!wWinMain+0xa0
GHI!__wmainCRTStartup+0x153
KERNEL32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0xe
ntdll!__RtlUserThreadStart+0x23
ntdll!_RtlUserThreadStart+0x1b
I didn’t work on this internal library,
January 23, 2014Jan 23, 201401/23/14The Visual Effects dialog box has three options, “Let Windows choose what’s best for my computer,” “Adjust for best appearance,” and “Adjust for crappiest appearance best performance.” Some people have discovered the registry key where the Visual Effects dialog box remembers which radio button was most recently checked,
