Win32: Who loads the library that implements LoadLibrary?
I was sitting in a Dairy Queen this afternoon thinking about random stuff and suddenly this question hit me: who loads the library that implements LoadLibrary? Isn’t it some kind […]
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How to break into debugger when specific Windows message is sent or posted
CodeProject We have recently been fighting a weird problem in our .NET application that was caused by a duplicate WM_KEYDOWN message. It relatively is easy to figure out who receives […]
Windows: Getting callback on child process exit in C++
In my current capacity I sometimes descend into the virtually forgotten depths of C++ desktop programming. One interesting problem I needed to solve is how to get notified about a […]
Apache AcceptEx Weirdness
The fun started Saturday morning, when I found a brown box by my door with a new cable modem in it. The paper inside the box said something like “install […]
MessageBoxes and worker threads
This will hopefully become a more organized article with code samples, but I need to record my results for now. Here’s the practical problem I encountered in the application I […]
Poltergeist? No, Vista Data Redirection
As I was working with a Vista machine, I started noticing that occasionally when I make a changes to some files, only certain programs can see them, but others can’t. […]
What’s in a name? A patch by any other name would work as sweet
This week-end I was playing with some sources and I wanted to apply some patches to them. So, I downloaded patch.exe from GNU and tried to run it on Windows […]