Yves Dolce
MCS Partner ISV
My blog home...
It's now on https://concrt.spaces.live.com. concrt was available so as that's what's on my mind...
Date: 11/10/2009
On Windows 7, the Invariant Culture is an installed culture...
Last month, I investigated an issue for an ISV where their code would work fine on Windows Vista but...
Date: 11/03/2009
How to add the application compatibility section with Visual C++ 2008?
If you wonder what I’m talking about when mentioning the compatibility section, have a look at my...
Date: 09/26/2009
The new compatibility section in the Application Manifest
This is still the same Application Manifest that you store in your Win32 Resource or put next to...
Date: 09/23/2009
Consider not using the Frame Pointer Optimization when building your software
Stack tracing is a very useful functionality for tracking both the causes of performance problems...
Date: 09/15/2009
UI0Detect, WlS0WndH and a lie...
https://blogs.msdn.com/yvesdolc/archive/2009/09/11/ui0detect-wls0wndh-and-a-lie.aspx In my prior to...
Date: 09/11/2009
If you develop/test on Windows 7, you might want to turn off the Fault Tolerant Heap…
It might interfere with your testing and after your software has crashed a couple of times, your...
Date: 08/28/2009
Do you still use the MessageBox API in your Windows Service?
Or do you display any type of User Interface? Starting with Windows Vista and above, user interfaces...
Date: 08/20/2009
Do you receive WM_PAINT when waiting for a COM call to return?
When a COM call is made that involves a COM Proxy or a call to CoWaitForMultipleHandles() (e.g. in a...
Date: 08/06/2009
Developing native applications for Windows 7 in C++
A gentleman from Germany asked on one of our forums: “I am interested in developing native Windows 7...
Date: 08/05/2009
No TOUCH utility on Windows to help refreshhing the Fusion Cache? MS-DOS copy command syntax...
After reading the November '06 "Manifest and the fusion cache" blog entry that one my peers wrote, I...
Date: 05/16/2009
Windows 7 redirection (a.k.a. virtualization) application I use to demonstrate the effect:
C:> cl /W4 /EHsc Redirection.cpp Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version...
Date: 04/21/2009
Windows 7 Libraries and the Common File Dialog…
As you can read in the application cookbook: When using IFileDialog, you must use GetResult method...
Date: 01/07/2009
Getting a list of all the subscribers to an event with WinDbg and SOS
I was wondering and Lee Culver from the CLR Quick Response Team was kind enough to give me an...
Date: 11/21/2008
Is MFC 2008 Feature Pack fighting my will?
I modify some MFC user interface related code, build, run and … nothing changes! “Well, let’s...
Date: 10/30/2008
The OEM Ready Program and RMTool.exe
On the The OEM Ready Program page, OEM’s can download the OEM Ready Program Test Cases for Windows...
Date: 06/12/2008
Windows Resource Protection API call and PowerShell 2.0
A month ago, I was lucky enough to give a presentation on Isolated Applications and Side-by-side...
Date: 06/11/2008
Native Manifests: let's do COM and forget the Registry...
You might have heard about it, might have seen those filenames ending with the .manifest extension,...
Date: 05/09/2008
C++: Class hierarchy diagrams for MFC (including Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack ones)
These diagrams show the relationship of classes within the MFC, including the original classes...
Date: 03/24/2008
C++: Digging into C++ Technical Report 1 (TR1)
If you're a C++ developer and not using yet the shared_ptr<> class, you're in for a surprise:...
Date: 03/05/2008
Microsoft Visual C++ Floating-Point Optimization
As you might already know, there's such an article from Eric Fleegal on MSDN:...
Date: 01/24/2008
C++ Variadic Templates
Found this interesting documents/primer on that topic:...
Date: 01/18/2008
Acquiring small targets on a screen can be challenging...
I've installed SPB Mobile Shell, Point UI and lately TouchPal on my AT&T Tilt... I'm hungry for...
Date: 01/16/2008
C# 3.0 var keyword + Enumerable.AsEnumerable
On my way back from México, I read Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008. Just like Charles...
Date: 01/10/2008
System.Xml.Linq and Office Open XML
Starting to play with those. So just FYE, here is what I wrote yesterday: // create the new...
Date: 12/07/2007
Diario de letras existe thanks to Microsoft Office Live Small Business
It's amazing what my girlfriend was able to do in so little time thanks, in part, to that simple...
Date: 11/30/2007
Live Search Maps has just been updated...
I really love that stuff. Check it out at https://maps.live.com. Go to Roma, try the 3D view and then...
Date: 10/15/2007
Fellini's Roma (Bent Remix) on KEXP
On my way to work this morning, I was listening to KEXP and heard that song. Went to KEXP 90.3 FM -...
Date: 10/09/2007
PowerShell: (Get-ChildItem | Get-Member | ? { $_.Name -eq "Mode"}).Definition
I was curious about that *nix like mode for the item ('d----') [13] gci ...
Date: 09/29/2007
Exceptions in C++
This keeps being an entertaining topic: Ale Contenti and Louis Lafreniere: Understanding Exceptions...
Date: 09/24/2007
C++/CLI : IntPtr to an HWND
I was fed up with always having to write different code for x86 or x64 so I wrote...
Date: 09/10/2007
HRESULT for managed code? HResult!
As usual, comments are welcomed! HResult.h #pragma once namespace Microsoft { namespace MCS {...
Date: 05/21/2007
Find-Item that used to be DIR /S
Under CMD.EXE, I used DIR /S a lot. Under PowerShell, this would translate as gci -r –fi. So I added...
Date: 03/21/2007
My PowerShell profile
Thought I would just share this new version: Function prompt { $windowsIdentity =...
Date: 03/07/2007
Ring tones: I typically don't care
nor would I ever pay to get one but this site has plenty interesting ones for free:...
Date: 02/26/2007
ItemPropertySet: accessing the Property System from managed code...
So, this code should eventually make it to the VistaBridge Windows SDK code sample ("no official...
Date: 02/24/2007
PowerShell, performance and regular expressions
Yesterday evening, I started to read Windows PowerShell in Action and did confirm what I had already...
Date: 02/22/2007
.NET Reflector on IL generated by C# 3.0 (LINQ)
Nothing like using .NET Reflector. The following C# code: public class Student { public string First...
Date: 02/16/2007
Known Folders, the return...
Fixed some bugs (thanks Catherine) and you can [un]register your own Known Folder now: Interop.cs:...
Date: 02/14/2007
Listing your properties...
I'm still working on a managed property system wrapper but after some excellent comments from Ben...
Date: 02/02/2007
IID_PPV_ARGS macro
You'll find it in ObjBase.h: // IID_PPV_ARGS(ppType) // ppType is the variable of type IType that...
Date: 12/27/2006
Babel - What a movie!
Went with Javier and Mariana to watch it tonight. What a ride. What a beautiful way to depict...
Date: 12/13/2006
Gordon is done! "C++/CLI: The Visual C++ Language for .NET" is available.
I've had the pleasure of reviewing most of the book: if you have any interest in C++/CLI, you'll...
Date: 12/06/2006
KnownFolders, Vista and managed code
Still need to polish it but this should be in the Windwos SDK SAmples VistaBridge in the future....
Date: 11/27/2006
GOOD BYE LENIN!
Just spent two wonderful hours watching that movie. I'm sure I missed a lot of the culture specific...
Date: 11/19/2006
My simple Display-EnvironmentVariable function for PowerShell
Function Display-EnvironmentVariable {Get-ChildItem ENV: | sort-object -property Name | format-table...
Date: 11/14/2006
DJ Dolores: que legal!
I don't listen enough to KEXP! Today around 1:30, I listened to a very nice tune while driving but I...
Date: 11/13/2006