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Jan 17, 2007
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Should all windows appear in the taskbar?

No new content today, just some follow-up discussion on the topic of windows that don't appear in the taskbar. The rules for which windows appear in the taskbar have been documented in MSDN for years, so changing the rules now would mean doing so after the game has ended. Consequently, this is not the sort of change that can be made lightly. Fi...

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Jan 16, 2007
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One Armstrong = 13.5 mph

Out of curiosity, I wanted to know how fast Tour de France riders go up l'Alpe D'Huez, the legendary mountain climb. Using information from the Wikipedia page, I calculated that Lance Armstrong's 2004 ascent had an average speed of approximately 13.5 mph (22 kph). Consequently, I invented the Armstrong, a unit of bicycle velocity, with o...

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Jan 16, 2007
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EnumChildWindows already enumerates recursively

I often see people write code that goes something like this: The intent here was to perform the operation on all the windows in a window tree by operating on the root, then operating on each of the children. Operating on the children is in turn performed recursively, so that we eventually see every window in the tree. Except that if you actua...

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Jan 15, 2007
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The wisdom of sev^H^H^Heighth graders: It was not just white people who were helped by Martin Luther King

(Today is the birthday of the famed civil rights leader, the first time since 2001 that the federal holiday coincides with the correct historical date. It seemed an auspicious date to return to the time machine essay.) The eighth grade students were given the same in-class writing assignment as the seventh graders, with the same ground rules, I ...

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Jan 15, 2007
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Does Microsoft internally use MFC for writing Windows apps?

Craig Ward figures that if he asks enough questions I might answer one of them. "Does Microsoft internally use MFC for writing Windows apps? How about VB?" People use whatever they decide best meets the requirements for the task at hand. That could be a batch file, a C++ program, a perl script, a web page with a bunch of JScript, use your imaginat...

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Jan 12, 2007
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How do I print the contents of a rich text control?

For some reason, people are really puzzled by rich edit printing. I'm no expert on printing, but even I was able to figure it out. The kernel is the message. Each time you call it, a little bit more of the rich text control is printed, and the message returns the index of the first unprinted character, which you can pass back in to print the next...

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Jan 11, 2007
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The history of the RichEdit control from Murray Sargent

Murray Sargent is a programmer over in the Office division whose blog deals mostly with math in Office, but he also slips into RichEdit history. If you can't get enough of a history fix from this web site, you can surf on over to Murray's for another hit.

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Jan 11, 2007
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How do I put more than 32,000 characters into a rich text control?

Last time we looked at loading an entire file into a rich text control. The code runs great, until you try to use it to display a license agreement provided by your legal department, and then some paranoid user reports that they can't read past page seven. (What, somebody reads those things?) What's going on? If you don't specify otherwise, the...

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Jan 10, 2007
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Ken Levine teaches us about television script writing

Ken Levine has written for some of the most well-known television programs of the past few decades. M*A*S*H, Cheers (for which he won an Emmy), Frasier. And that's not counting his second (third? fourth?) career as a baseball announcer. He writes about whatever is on his mind, be it Barry Bonds' 715th home run, what not to put into your televis...

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Jan 10, 2007
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How do I load an entire file into a rich text control?

To load an entire file into a rich text control, you can use the message, which accepts an of data all at once. Once you find the message, it's pretty straightforward how to use it, but I'll write out the code anyway; You pretty much follow your nose. The message wants you to tell it the format of the stream () and provide a pointer to an s...

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