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Small bug in the MSDN documentation
Hardly worth mentioning, but there is a minor bug in the documentation of fopen and its friends. The remarks section lists the open mode encoding for 16 bit unicode as UTF16-LE instead of UTF-16LE. As I said it is very minor, but if you use fopen, care...
Posted: Oct 09 2008, 01:02 AM by vanDooren | with no comments
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How not to ask question on a forum
Here is another person who needs to learn some netiquette (emphasis mine). Hey, well, I will not describe my situation because it is not part of my question and has nothing directly to do with it and would only lead to false assumptions as it already...
Posted: Oct 06 2008, 01:29 AM by vanDooren | with no comments
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Programmer discovers that floating point numbers have a floating point
I hang out in the MSDN forums on a regular basis, to see if there’re any questions that need answering. Usualy this is pretty unexciting, but every now and again, the asker really needs a reality check. This thread came up some time ago, and it...
Posted: Oct 02 2008, 12:05 AM by vanDooren | with 1 comment(s)
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My latest article in NTInsider
A bit late perhaps, but my latest article on API development got published in the NTInsider (owned by OSR Online ). The online version can be found here . It requires free registration. I know that at least 2 people have read it completely, because that...
Stuck on stupid
It happens to every programmer. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen to everyone. You are looking at a piece of code or some debugging output, scratching your head and thinking 'This is impossible'. It's probably only 10 or 20 lines...
Posted: Sep 10 2008, 03:31 PM by vanDooren | with no comments
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I stand corrected: not all C++ programmers hate VB
As I already mentioned before, it's a small world after all. (Hearing that annoying Disney tune yet in your head J ). I am writing an article about C++/CLI in which I use a quote from my fellow VC++ MVP Kate Gregory. I did a quick search to find her...
Posted: Jul 01 2007, 04:02 PM by vanDooren | with no comments
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