// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
If you share concept (as I do) that every build should have a unique file version stamp in it, for a simple purpose – at least – to distinguish between different version of the same binary, then a helpful tool of automatic incrementing fourth number in FILEVERSION’s file version is something you cannot live without.…
If you were adding and removing ActiveX controls programmatically with ATL, you might have noticed a nasty memory leak after final release of the control. Control added, removed and a leaky block is left om heap. Tracking simple memory leaks is not a rocket science with Microsoft C++ runtime, by adding _CRTDBG_MAP_ALLOC define, as described…
It was a sort of ridiculous problem: an attempt to instantiate a Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 object failed with error. Still some applications are still running without problems connecting to Jet databases, how comes? There has been a number of posts on Internet, but none of the top ones appeared to be relevant. The problem is reproduced extremely…
As an appreciation of outstanding contributions in DShow/Media Foundation technical communities during the past year I was presented with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award, which I am very much pleased to receive. In an intention to accompany the post with useful DirectShow related information, here is the link list of most important DirectShow resources on…
If you drag a file over Windows Live Messenger‘s My Sharing Folders shell name space item, it would immediately interrupt dragging with an error message box, even if you never planned to drop onto this folder: This should definitely be rather implemented a different way. If you ever tried to drag something using slow PC…
I decided to download a beta of Windows 7, so many people shared their positive impressions of. I am not quite sure I will have time to actually evaluate it, but for the case I would feel like, it is always nice to have the .ISO image ready for a try. There was nothing worth…
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…