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If you're looking for the code that displays a particular dialog box, the most directly way to find it is to look for the dialog box

August 20, 2014 Aug 20, 2014 08/20/14

Raymond Chen

Suppose you are working in a large or unfamiliar code base and you want to know where the code is that displays a particular dialog box or message box or something. Probably the most direct way of figuring this out is to look for the strings. Say there is a message box that asks for user confirmation. "Are you sure you want to frobulate the ...