November 12, 2007

Another useful piece for anyone in a relationship with a nerd...
Once again Rands hits the nail on the head with The Nerd Handbook......

CLR Hosting lifetime issues bite again...
I'm looking into adding CLR deadlock detection into the CLR hosting code that's used inside our servers and, once again, the fact that you can't cleanly shutdown the CLR host is causing me problems... Since the CLR can't be stopped...

November 20, 2007

Back in time with DDE
After completing some work for client with the custom CLR hosting server I've started looking into a problem for another client, it's a bit of a transition as the problem that he's having is with a DDE connection from his...

November 29, 2007

VS 2008
I'm currently rebuilding my world with Visual Studio 2008. So far things are going ok, but as I mentioned back when I was playing with Beta 2, the new C4627 warning about header files being skipped when processing precompiled headers...

Thank you Raymond
Raymond Chen has just blogged about "The importance of the FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS flag" over on The Old New Thing. That's another annoying bug fixed ;). I've occasionally wondered why I get some less than informative error messages sometimes, I wasn't passing...