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Regarding the crash in Extract, MSDN has this to say: Beginning with the .NET Framework version 4, the Assembly Cache Viewer (Shfusion.dll) [the implementation that crashed when passing NULL] is...
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@Christian: Â Obviously there is value in providing application compatibility, but it's all work that could have been avoided if people didn't write bad code in the first place. Â However, there is no...
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@JoakimA: I was wondering about this same exact thing the other week. Â I'd say the documentation and support articles are ambiguous; it is really not clear what one should do in this situation. Â You...
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[The great thing about making a strict version of the operating system is that nobody will run it. -Raymond] What is the main drawback to making EVERY copy of the OS run "strict"? If it's speed, you...
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re: Registration-free COM the old-fashioned way: The car mp3 player
Singing along to Symphony #5 is fun!
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re: Registration-free COM the old-fashioned way: The car mp3 player
Peter Schickele (of PDQ Bach fame) has a sportscast version of that symphony which is worth a listen. www.youtube.com/watch
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If there aren't business related consequence, sometimes I do wish Microsoft publish News Flash on new entries of Application Compatability Database, much in the same style as Hall of Shame. People who...
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> If you don't want to accommodate compatibility in your code, then go ahead and pass NULL. See how many customers you get. Raymond, as a developer, why do you care about how many customers you get?...
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James, in this case the point may be moot since the crashing extension is deprecated and the worst you'll get is a missing icon. Nothing you'll lose customers over. However, I've been in a situation...
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@James: Microsoft is in the business of selling an operating system that can run my programs. If the next version of their OS doesn't run my programs, I won't use it, until such time as there's an...
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I believe the canonical implementation reads like this (in Delphi): // Returns when <BytesToRead> bytes are read into <Buffer> or when the timer <TimeoutTimer> expires, // whatever...
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re: Microspeak: scoped to
Wrong usage of words exists everywhere but no other language I know except for English offers the style of management gibberish talk that are hinted in the third and the last example. There are much...
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The very last one reminds me of Phil Ken Sebben's motto (for anyone that's seen Harvey Birdman): "Putting clients first by putting employees first. Immediately after prioritizing fiscal responsibility...
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@Jeff: It's incredibly confusing when your punctuation is so bad; ". It's" should be ", its" and also "not withstanding" should be "notwithstanding".
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"It just trusts that you're calling it correctly and builds an asynchronous call to pass into the kernel. If you passed a synchronous handle" I think sync and async are reversed here?
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So many of these customer questions really seem like variations on the famous Babbage quote: "On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the...
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Is it just me, or does passing a spurious NULL to the KERNEL sound like something that should always be caught. I'm just remembering that everything in kernel needs to be soft realtime, handle...
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They should have kept it async only. Now programmers write programs which hang because everything's waiting on I/O.
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I'd guess the reason is the ByteOffset parameter of NtReadFile. If you don't pass an overlapped to ReadFile, it sends NULL to the kernel to specify the current file position. And that won't work for an...
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@James: "Raymond, as a developer, why do you care about how many customers you get?" What do you think pays the developer's salary? Yep, that's right - sales of the software they're developing. Do you...
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