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The perils of precompiled headers Posted by Len at 3 Sep 2008 11:44 AM
I'm working on some client code today and it's fairly typical of most 'Visual Studio Wizard generated code' in that it uses precompiled headers in a pretty poor way. The default wizard generated code seems to encourage people down a...

Flame on Posted by Len at 2 Sep 2008 10:02 AM
There's an interesting post over on "Blogging Considered Harmful" about why flaming someone for incorrect technical spouting is a good thing; I tend to agree. I actually WANT people to shout down my stupidity, if they're right and I'm wrong...

The mounted file system does not support extended attributes... Posted by Len at 24 Jun 2008 09:49 AM
I really really really hate the error that I sometimes get when trying to copy a file from my Vista box to my NAS: "The mounted file system does not support extended attributes". With the options to "Try again" or...

Go on, tell us why? Posted by Len at 4 Apr 2007 11:45 PM
It wont come a surprise to anyone who has read this blog for a while that I disagree with much of what Simon Sebright has written about asserts in the latest issue of the ACCU's Overload magazine... I've stated my...

Lifetime management issues with CLR hosting Posted by Len at 12 Feb 2007 04:41 PM
I'm still playing with hosting the CLR in C++ (using "Customizing the Microsoft.NET Framework Common Language Runtime" by Steven Pratschner as my guide)... It's an interesting journey but, once again, I wonder who makes the important technical decisions at Microsoft...

I don't like Vanilla Scoble Posted by Len at 16 Nov 2005 10:38 AM
Robert Scoble, the "Microsoft Geek blogger", has recently had a complaint that he only writes about Microsoft and he figured that he was in a rut and decided to get out of his rut by deliberately not writing about his...

Why are the "event" classes in .Net STILL broken? Posted by Len at 15 Nov 2005 06:01 PM
Whilst I'm ranting about the little things... You still can't create named versions of the .Net ManualResetEvent and AutoResetEvent, even in .Net 2.0. Wasn't everything going to be fixed in Whidbey?...

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