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Comment on Rational Purify and the “Microsoft DIA SDK”: how to make it work by Jeff Rhyason

Jeff Rhyason — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:16:51 +0000

I agree, the help system really leaves you wanting. Thanks for writing this article!

Comment on Oh come on Windows, you can do better than that. by Richie Hindle

Richie Hindle — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:00:52 +0000

@Steve: Ah, thanks! Cheers to Microsoft for fixing it (but boos for breaking it in Vista).

Comment on Oh come on Windows, you can do better than that. by Steve Beeston

Steve Beeston — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:51:22 +0000

Links are active in Windows 7. You can click on them just fine.

Comment on Oh come on Windows, you can do better than that. by Richie Hindle

Richie Hindle — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:24:35 +0000

@danio: It’s Vista in the screenshot, but I believe Windows 7 is the same (I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong… )

Comment on Oh come on Windows, you can do better than that. by danio

danio — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:00:09 +0000

Is that Vista or 7?
XP handles it OK with a dialog box containing clickable links.

Seems that MS really don’t like spending time finishing their software off!

Comment on Rational Purify and the “Microsoft DIA SDK”: how to make it work by Jerome Connor

Jerome Connor — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:08:10 +0000

It was a great help.

Thanks

Comment on Setting a Visual Studio breakpoint on a Win32 API function in user32.dll by Richie Hindle

Richie Hindle — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:56:50 +0000

@Asher: You type the expression into the New Breakpoint dialog, not the Watch window.

Comment on Setting a Visual Studio breakpoint on a Win32 API function in user32.dll by Asher

Asher — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:13:18 +0000

I don’t know how these expressions work.

When I type {,,user32.dll}_SendMessageA@16 into the watch window, I get the error “CXX0036: Error: bad context {…} specification”

Comment on “It works for me”, or, “How does it know a developer’s using it?!” by Richie Hindle

Richie Hindle — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:27:06 +0000

@danio: Good story!

I work with a scarily clever guy, and one day one of my colleagues discovered how to a) spy on his screen, and b) remap his keyboard. So he swapped the top two rows: QWERTYUIOP[] became ASDFGHJKL;’# and vice versa. This guy’s typing barely faltered – he just remapped his brain and carried on regardless.

Comment on “It works for me”, or, “How does it know a developer’s using it?!” by danio

danio — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:53:36 +0000

That’s a good one – can be a real PITA to figure these kind of things out.
Reminds me of when I used to work in tech support. One of the users couldn’t log in to the application. I dialled up to remote control, got him to tell me the password and could log in fine. Got him to do it and it failed every time. Made him type his password in really carefully listening for key clicks – still no dice.
Then for some reason I got inspiration – asked him to read his keyboard letters out to me – middle row went
A S D F G J H K L
Some joker had swapped the key tops round on the H & J keys, and the poor user was doing hunt and peck typing so he never realised…