Kenny Kerr
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Adam on Compiling MSIL
Adam White, a friend of mine from Toronto, read my Introduction to MSIL series and noticed that I neglected to provide any information on how to actually compile all the IL that I wrote about. I figured it just wasn’t all that interesting, but if you have read my series and need a bit of help getting some of the examples to run, you may want to check out Adam’s post where he provides some helpful information.
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Moving to Visual C++ 2005 July CTP
I just installed the July CTP of Visual Studio and immediately noticed a bug in the way the Visual C++ compiler implements the Dispose pattern for ref class destructors.
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Mixing Native and Managed Types in C++
Wow, its turning into a busy month. I just haven’t had any time to blog despite having a number of interesting topics to cover. I’ll try to get a few of them written soon. Here’s a topic from one of my regular readers.
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I'm an MVP!
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Tabbed Browsing in Visual Studio
Don Box points out the neat tabbed browsing support in Visual Studio 2005. It’s certainly way better than the tabbed browsing provided by the MSN Toolbar which flickers terribly as it switches IE windows.
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OneNote PowerToy Contest
Does anyone know whether Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 can be used to develop power toys for the contest? The official rules simply state:
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WTL 7.5 on SourceForge
A new version of the Windows Template Library (WTL) was released earlier this month and includes support for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. This is a great library for building native Windows applications.
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Broken Links
My web hosting provider seems to be out of service at the moment so downloads and images on my blog aren’t available as they’re hosted on my site (http://www.kennyandkarin.com/). It will hopefully be restored in the next few hours.
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Is P/Invoke Dead?
A reader recently asked whether P/Invoke is dead since you can use C++ Interop and avoid re-declaring all the functions and structures that you might already have in system header files.
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Special Folders Browser
When using the Environment.SpecialFolder enumeration I often spend a few extra moments checking what path a particular SpecialFolder constant refers to on my computer. Since it can be different from machine to machine and user to user it can help to quickly identify where the special folders point to. I got tired of writing the same boilerplate code over and over again so I quickly wrote the Special Folders Browser.