Infos about Windows development and dotNET Framework
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2023/06/24/freeconsole-breaking-change-or-bug-in-windows-10/
As I wrote in one of my last post (XmlSerializer bug in .NET4.5 and legacy serializer) was the XmlSerializer completely redesignd and rewritten in .NET 4.5. This leads to several problems (see my...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2016/07/04/xmlserializer-changes-from-net4-to-4-5/
For Christmas I got a “Rasberry Pi 2 B” which is also supported by Windows 10 IoT core. I wanted to replace my old Windows server in my heating room, which monitors my heating unit, with this...
Starting with .NET4.5 (which is an in-place update of .NET4) Microsoft created a completely new XmlSerializer. And as a developer you know, that it is almost impossible to re-write a software and...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2014/12/09/xmlserializer-bug-in-net4-5-and-legcy-serializer/
If you use VS2013 (with TFS2013) your VS suggest to use a local TFS Workspace. At the first view, this seems to be a good idea… but after a depper look there seems to be a bad implementation, a...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2014/08/20/why-not-to-use-a-tfs-local-workspace/
Here you will find the presentation and the demos from the session at Advanced Developers Conference C++ in Garching. I hope that you enjoyed it and can use some of the features I showed to you! ...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2014/04/29/adc-2014-debugging-tools-for-windows/
It is still not possible to change the target framework in the VS2010 or VS2012 IDE in the project settings. The only way to change it, is to manually edit the vcxproj file. For this you need to ...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2014/02/06/change-target-framework-in-ccli-for-vs20102012/
Since Windows 200 it is possible to have auto completion for edit boxes which searches the file system and presents a drop down list with the current files. There is a simple helper function to e...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2014/01/29/auto-completion-for-current-directory/
Starting with VS2005(VC8) it was not possible to handle all exceptions in process. I have discussed this in “SetUnhandledExceptionFilter” and VC8 and in Unhandled exceptions in VC8 and above�...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2013/05/23/improvedpreventsetunhandledexceptionfilter/
A woundfull video about gmail; a must see! http://youtu.be/TDbrX5U75dk
After looking deeper into the MSDN Forums Client and into an C# NNTP server, I decided to integrate both Ms-PL projects into a single project: Community Forums NNTP bridge The result is a single ...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2010/05/26/ann-community-forums-nntp-bridge/
If you are using my $log$ substitution/keyword expansion for your source code with TFS, I have good news for your: I have upgradred my project to VS2010 😉 The latest download can be found here...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2010/05/01/logsubstpol-updated-to-vs2010/
If you convert a project from VC5/6/2002/2003/2005/2008 to VC2010, you will sometimes get an warning during the conversion (UpgradeLog.XML) and during the link phase os your build. This warning m...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2010/04/27/converting-vc-projects-to-vc2010-warning-msb8012/
If you have installed VS2008 and/or VS2010 (full), you will notice that OleView is not installed! The product team decided to remove this utility from the tools-folder. But you the source-code is...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2010/04/22/oleview-not-found-in-vs208-and-vs2010/
Here is now the offical statement for the supported runtime OS: Windows XP with SP2 and later Windows Server 2003 with SP1 and later Windows Vista RTM an later Windows Server 2008 RTM and later W...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2010/04/22/supported-runtime-os-for-vc2010/
You can download the VS2010 Default Keybinding Cards here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=92CED922-D505-457A-8C9C-84036160639F&displaylang=en
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2010/04/13/default-keybindings-for-vs2010-c-c-vb-f/
Finally MS release a *better* sos.dll extension for WinDbg (psscor2.dll), which has many more features. One of my favorite feature is “displaying callstacks with line infos”! Also it has a go...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2010/03/30/better-sosdll-for-debugging-in-windbg-available/
If you want to give feedback for VC++ for the next version of VS (after VS2010), you can fill out the VC++ product team survey: http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2010/03/22/vc-developer-survey...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2010/03/22/feedback-for-vc-for-the-version-after-vs2010/
The latest dbghelp.dll (version 6.12.2.633), which can be downloaded via the newest WDK, seems to have a major bug regarding the function SymGetModuleInfo64 (which is used in almost every project...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2010/03/02/major-bug-in-the-new-dbghelpdll/
There is a “research” project to access the msdn-web forums via a nntp-bridge. The offical version is “V1″… but I must say, that it is still Beta1 😉 For example, there is a bug with ...
http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2010/03/02/forums-nntpbridge-an-datetime/