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Was forbidding desktop applications on Windows RT the correct move? 1 Aug 2013 | 02:10 am
Every day, someone bugs me at work about the news reports relating to how the Surface RT was not the success Microsoft had hoped it would be. And Asus had the same conclusion. I tell them Surface R...
New in Windows 8.1 store apps: a way to separate your app from your resources 22 Jul 2013 | 02:18 am
One of the biggest complaints about the Windows 8 Windows store app approach to dealing with localization (separate translations for each language you decide to support), was the inability to decouple...
A note about Stroustrup’s The C++ Programming Language 4th Edition 22 Jul 2013 | 01:51 am
As far as C++ books are concerned, this is the definitive reference, from the inventor of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup. I grew up with his 2nd, 3rd, and Special Editions, and I highly recommend that you ta...
Visual Studio 2013 support for targeting Windows 8 20 Jul 2013 | 01:06 am
I’ve been working my way through the multitude of //build 2013 session videos on channel9, and I came across an interesting presentation: Upgrading Windows 8 Apps to Windows 8.1 There is a lot of re...
Going Native 2013 C++ conference – new discount for first 50 people! 19 Jul 2013 | 11:19 pm
The Going Native 2013 conference is taking place this September 4-6, 2013 in Bellevue, Washington. 50 lucky people can register now for Going Native 2013 – Use promo code: $100dGN13 to receive a US$1...
Why MUIRCT is so cool (aka separating Win32 resources into satellite DLLs, the easy way) 19 Jul 2013 | 09:51 pm
MUIRCT is a utility that Microsoft made available starting with the Windows Vista SDK. It’s a localization utility that allows you to “split” resources from a DLL that has already been built. Let’s ...
Finding the kernel32.dll module handle in a Windows Store app using approved APIs 19 Jul 2013 | 08:31 pm
As there are a lot of forbidden Win32 APIs in Windows Store apps (i.e. APIs that, if you call them, will cause your app to fail app certification), there are often other alternative APIs that you have...
Porting Win32 code to 64 bit: watch out for pointers 17 Jul 2013 | 12:05 am
During the porting of an application to 64 bit, I recently found out about a very interesting registry key value, that, when set, will force the Windows memory manager to give you a high address (grea...
How do my API wrapper functions avoid triggering linker errors? 11 Jul 2013 | 06:39 am
Now that we have a stable (VS2012+Update 3) solution for XP support, there is no longer a need for these wrappers. I was going to make a general write-up on how all of my API wrapper classes work, bu...
How to get Visual C++ 2012 Update 2 statically linked applications to run on Windows XP 15 Apr 2013 | 08:53 am
Due to a regression in Visual C++ 2012 Update 2, applications using ATL will no longer be able to run on XP, even if using built-in XP targeting support. This is due to a new dependency on Initialize...
