Developing Windows Applications by Mykola Dudar
Helping Developers Build Applications for Windows using Visual Studio.
Q&A on adapting VS2005 SP1 to build your applications
When VS2005 SP1 has been released, because of manifests it become more visible what version of VC++...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 02/09/2007
Silent installs of VCRedist.EXE shipped with VS2005
Aaron has a post on his blog that describes way of silent install of VCRedist.EXE. I though I would...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 02/08/2007
ATL Server as shared source project
Great news - ATL Server is moving to a shared source project. If you have not already noticed, it...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 01/24/2007
Discussing Visual C++ product strategy
There is an interesting post on VC++ Orcas forum, which I thought I would link to from my blog....
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 01/03/2007
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!
May the happiness of your family, the warmth of love, the joy of friendship and companion surround...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 12/24/2006
Another update to STL/CLR is integrated.
As I have announced on VC Blog, VC++ libraries team has integrated another big updated to STL/CLR....
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 12/22/2006
STL/CLR specification is available online
Just in case people have not noticed this yet, I would like to bring your attention to the fact that...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 11/22/2006
First public release of STL/CLR in Orcas is available now!
The first public release of STL/CLR in Orcas is available for download. This version of STL/CLR has...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 09/30/2006
Junfeng Zhang describing ways of diagnosing SxS failures
Junfeng has an interesting walkthrough on how diagnose SxS failures and brief introduction of new...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 08/28/2006
More information about STL/CLR
Ale is a developer in VC Libraries team who works on STL/CLR. He has just described on vcblog areas...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 08/03/2006
Aero Wizards (Windows Vista style wizards) in MFC8 (VS2005)
Almost a year ago I was looking on new Vista features to estimate amount of changes to an existing...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 07/10/2006
Calling methods of deleted object
I came across an interesting discussion today. A person who asked the question called a method of...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 07/07/2006
Generic Interfaces in STL/CLR
Today I would like to start introducing parts in STL/CLR library which are not present in STL. In...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 07/03/2006
Found issue with comments...
I found an issue with my blog settings that explains why comments to some of my posts are not...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/28/2006
STL/CLR comparing to STL
I continue introducing to STL/CLR. In this post I would like to describe what parts of STL library...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/28/2006
Norton WinDoctor errors about msvcr80.dll
Another email came in my inbox today. It is about Norton WinDoctor issuing errors about msvcr80.dll....
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/28/2006
Codeguru slow chat or where I spend my time
Sorry, I know I promised more information about STL/CLR and did not keep my promise last two days....
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/22/2006
What is STL/CLR
STL/CLR, originally called STL.NET, is an implementation of Standard Template Library (STL) that can...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/16/2006
Where is STL/CLR
Well, finally I have a good news. We have started working on preparing STL/CLR (former called...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/16/2006
Visual C++ Team Blog
Visual C++ team has started a blog dedicated to announcing feature and planning changes, share views...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/01/2006
Martyn talking about VC++ Libraries
You may find Channel9 interview with Martyn. He talks about about VC++ libraries in general and...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 04/27/2006
Applocal deployment of MFC localized resource DLLs
It was pointed out to me that it is not clear from Docs how to redistribute MFC localized DLLs with...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 04/24/2006
Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package is released to the web
VCRedist.exe can now be downloaded from the Microsoft site. This package contains VS2005 RTM...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 04/11/2006
Embed manifest with makefiles in VS2005
It is pointed out to me that MSDN example on how to embed manifest is focused on changes into one...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 03/23/2006
Release of STL/CLR (STL.NET)
I have an update for everyone interested in STL/CLR (used to be called STL.Net). During the last few...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 02/07/2006
Feedback on VS2005
You probably already know that VS2005 has been released. Just a small note. One can still use...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 11/10/2005
VS2005 docs are online!
I would like to let readers know that most of material that I have on my blog in regard of Fusion...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 10/19/2005
Running C++ application built by VC++ Express on another computer
Another FAQ from VC++ Express users is: "I give my VC++ application to my friend, and it does not...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 09/02/2005
Visual C++ on PDC 2005
If you have not heard that already, just a reminder that PDC is in two weeks. I will fly to LA only...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 08/25/2005
Avalon and Win32
Nick Kramer has posted a draft of his paper on integration of Win32 and Avalon. Great read. Take a...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 07/19/2005
Enabling anonymous comments
I was just informed that external folks cannot comment on my posts. Sorry, my mistake. I think it...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 07/19/2005
Complete example for MFC/Winforms integration
Just posted on MSDN a sample of MFC/Windows Forms integration as it is in Visual Studio 2005. Please...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 07/19/2005
Speak up if you use #define _HAS_EXCEPTIONS
I am trying to understand number of customers use this #define and user scenarios it is currently...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/29/2005
cannot access private member error when porting MFC project
On the forum, we have surfaced another error. I had a chance today to see a real-world code with...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/16/2005
Share your experience of using third party static libs and problems you encounter
Quite commonly know problem is that if you have a 3rd party static library and you switch to new...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/14/2005
Windows Forms and MFC Integration using CWinFormDialog
One of the primary scenarios around integration of Windows Forms into an existing MFC application is...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/10/2005
How to Debug 'The System cannot Execute the specified program' message.
Here is another unofficial preview of a topic that I am going to send out to our UE team later today...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/09/2005
Fusion Docs
I am helping our UE team (folks that work on MSDN docs) with topics on Fusion and how to debug...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/09/2005
Why I see ''Embedding manifest...'' message in Output window?
Well, time flies fast. It was two month since my last post here. One may ask what I was doing all...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/05/2005
How to embed manifest inside C/C++ binary using makefiles
Here is an unofficial preview of sample that is going to be available soon on MSDN. As always,...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/05/2005
New VC++ PMs are online!
Welcome Boris Jabes, our PM for IDE team, his blog is on on msdn https://blogs.msdn.com/borisj.
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 04/08/2005
Resolving application dependency on Visual C++ libraries
When you use Visual C++ to build windows applications, a key step to guarantee that your application...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 03/18/2005
KB on bufferoverflowU.lib
Available as of today (I guess) 894573 You may receive the "Linker tools error LNK2001" error...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 03/09/2005
Using tools without installing Visual Studio
Recently another issue has come up another FAQ. Folks try using tools without installing Visual...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 02/10/2005
Shipping apps using SxS assemblies
This came up one more time today, so I have decide to blog two links to well-done KB articles. 1)...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 02/07/2005
April Reagan is blogging
https://blogs.msdn.com/aprilr April is VC Box PM. Take a look on her introduction to learn what this...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 02/07/2005
MSN Search has been released!
Read the press release https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/msn/default.asp I have downloaded...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 02/01/2005
Linking to MFC and CRT dynamically and statically in one image
If you link your MFC application that consumes MFC static lib, often you may encounter a situation...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 01/28/2005
Deprecation warnings for C Runtime functions when using Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 or CTP
I am constatly being asked same question on and on. "I have an old code that uses a CRT function and...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 01/28/2005
Unresolved external __security_cookie with Platform SDK compiler
Quite a frequently asked questions. You build your code using recent build of the platform SDK and...
Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 01/28/2005