// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
Started as Is it possible to use local component in DLL? on microsoft.public.vc.atl newsgroup. The question is to embed a custom DirectX Media Object (DMO) into executable so that it is only available to proprietary application and not to entire system and could be reused in other applications. If in particular this DMO should be…
I just read a post on frame pointer omission (FPO) optimization, also known as /Oy compiler flag. And a comment from Vladimir Scherbina on problems getting the feature actually work. I wondered if there has been any improvement with a Visual Studio .NET 2008 SP1. latest compiler from Microsoft and briefly – the result is…
Microsoft C++ compiler offers a buffer security check option since quite a long ago. It adds so called “security cookies” onto stack and checks them to be not modified by code in order to early-detect stack buffer overflow conditions. The compiler option /GS is enabled by default in Release configurations and is not applicable to…
It is amazing how bugs go through versions and years. Visual Studio’s IDE dockable windows framework is cool, no doubt. But it was since 2005, if not earlier, that tool window undocked by a double click while application is running (debugging session active) is brought to wrong position and is tending to go out of…
Security Essen 2008 is a global event for securty industry. The website lists exhibitors, but I would rather it is more usable in sense of listing and filtering exhibitors. Luckily, the list is parsed out for a better manipulation: And also a product category filtering: A categorized list of over 1000 exhibitors with addresses and…
The other day I “wrote some code” to workaround an extremely stupid hardware issues. The depth of idiocy is just incredible: to release a bunch of hardware that just don’t work, release a number of firmware updates that just don’t fix the simplest thing: HTTP compatibility. If there was a single little try to see…
It is amazing how it might come that Microsoft Forums‘ RSS feed appears broken on Google Reader with duplicated entries for each of the items. Regardless of whose the bug is, it seems to me that it is the Microsoft’s one, both are sophisticated applications of a large scale while RSS thing is just nothing…