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A colleague of mine was having trouble getting the metacharacter in a regular expression to work. Of course, when somebody asks a question like that, you first have to establish what their definition of "work" is. Fortunately, he provided some examples: "The last two entries are just sanity checks to make sure I didn't make some stupid mistake l...

A customer reported a problem with their shell extension: We want to format a floating point number according to the user's default locale. We do this by calling to convert the value from floating point to text with a period (U+002E) as the decimal separator, then using to apply the user's preferred grouping character, decimal separator, etc. W...

We saw some time ago that you can't simulate keyboard input with . You may get away with it, depending on how the application you're trying to fake out processes input, but since you're just faking data, the application may discover that it's all a ruse when they try to access information that you didn't fake out, say by calling and discovering t...

A customer reported having problems developing the correct p/invoke signature for the structure. "The code works on 32-bit machines, but on 64-bit machines, the call to returns ." The sample code included the lines My response was simply, "I bet you are passing the wrong structure size. Note that on 64-bit Windows, the alignment of the inne...

It's in the App Paths.

A customer wanted to know how to disable windowless control support in dialog boxes. "The customer has a CommandButton ActiveX control on his dialog box, and using to get the window handle of the command button succeeded with VC 6.0, but when compiled with VC 9.0, it does not create a window. I'm guessing that this is caused by 's suppor...

A customer asked, "Given a hardlink name, is it possible to get the original file name used to create it in the first place?" Recall that hard links create an alternate name for a file. Once that alternate name is created, there is no way to tell which is the original name and which is the new name. The new file does not have a "link back to the...

Use your own account.

We saw last time one of the deadlocks you can run into when playing with pipes. Today we'll look at another one: Our program runs a helper process with stdin/stdout/stderr redirected. The helper process takes input via stdin and prints the result to stdout. Sometimes we find that the from the controlling process into the stdin pipe hangs. Clos...

Pipe in, pipe out.