http://alax.info/blog Software Production Line Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:26:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Did you come here for some cool software or an utility? Software: check NTFS Links, DHCP Server pages WordPress Plugins: check Google Talk Sidebar Widget pages Utilities: check Utilities category and check subcategories on the sidebar Are you interested in C++ development, ATL and WTL? Check Technology category, ATL and WTL subcategories, you might also ... http://alax.info/blog/200 While regsvr32 tool is used to register COM servers, such as .DLL, .OCX, .AX files, sometimes you need an equivalent for type library files, such as .TLB, for example to automate software registration on a host. There has been no stock utility for this that I am aware of, so ... http://alax.info/blog/739 While troubleshooting released application on remote production site, it is very useful to grasp a state of the process for further analysis. There are several scenarios in which the following information about process state is helpful: modules (DLLs) loaded into process and their versions threads and their call stacks process and thread performance An ... http://alax.info/blog/665 I recently advised to take a look at new beta version of Skype software, which I have to use nevertheless I would prefer Jabber for instant messaging if I would be free to choose. I was told that finally multiple chats are hosted in a single window and it is ... http://alax.info/blog/733 A picture for relaxation: It is probably a fresh bug there as it seems to be happening far more frequently with version 2008 (with ot without SP1) as compared to 2005. Luckily it has no effect to code being written, the problem clearly relates to debugger. At some point there is ... http://alax.info/blog/730 There has been recently an interesting post "Problem playing back multi-channel wave file under vista" on DirectShow Development forum about certain hardware that is capable of recording 64 channels of audio in 24-bit per sample PCM quality, with a sample recorded .WAV file posted. I was curious what kind of hardware ... http://alax.info/blog/724 FFDShow is already known for it issues (including for example mentioned one). Today's featured one is related to its Video Decoder. A great deal of FFDShow related issues amy be worked around with a single shot by listing the image name as an FFDShow exclusion under registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\ffdshow; blacklist but I felt ... http://alax.info/blog/719 I am sharing a couple of utilities to be able to quick check system settings. TimeZoneInformation prints in a human friendly style TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION structure as reported by Windows through GetTimeZoneInformation API. TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION: .Bias: -120 .StandardName: FLE Standard Time .StandardDate: { .wYear 0, .wMonth 10, .wDay 5, .wDayOfWeek 0, .wHour 4, .wMinute 0, .wSecond 0, ... http://alax.info/blog/715 This is a begged MFC code for multiple windowless video renderers. MFC project, two independent video renderers hosted by the same parent window (actually through owned controls but this makes no major difference), VMR9 in windowless mode. There are no WM_PAINT/WM_ERASEBKGND handlers, IVMRWindowlessControl9::RepaintVideo calls and other basically required code, instead a ... http://alax.info/blog/711 > How do you test performance? I don't. I just believe in it. This is actually what we have here but still we have managed to deliver software that gives more frames per second than rivals. Why? We hopefully knew what we did in first place. According to one of our partner ... http://alax.info/blog/707