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Practical Example of needing decoupling...
Some people are probably thinking "Matty, your crazy. Couplingis how programs do things; there is no way around it!" Well...all I have to say is its...
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Coupling
It is impossible to write any non-trivial software without having to deal withsome variant of coupling. Even simple applications need to be coupled...
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System Design -- Finite State Machines
Hello fellow developers! I'm working a project where I can share info withthe public again so I figured I would restart my developer journal.I've...
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Debugging the Dreaded 1935 During MSI Install
This is one of the most annoying issues when coping with installers.At least its better than "your boned, good luck finding it;" however,Error 1935....
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Installing To \Windows\WinSxS
If you've been following my manifest journal entries, then at this point you will have everything you need to use winsxs/fusion--save one major...
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strtok not threadsafe on windows
Anyone, like me, who started off in the land of "C" or beforestl really got standardized probably uses, or has legacy code that has strtokfor...
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Setting up Subversion on OSX
Revision control software is one of the most important tools a developer will ever use.If you on windows and developing alone, microsoft source safe...
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Dealing with a side effect of sxs.
I've you've been following my posts at this point you are almostready to install as many versions of your application on a system as you want.Ready...
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Starting to pull the understanding of Manifests together.
If you are writing an application in c++ application in visual studio you will typically be linking against the "microsoft c runtime."If you look in...
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An adventure debugging a winsxs error.
[Bear with my, I'm journaling this as I debug... we will find the solutiontogether, since I won't have time to do a post edit on this entry.]As...
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Lets talk about COM, InterOp, and Manifests
Manifests are loaded two ways: by the OS loader, and manually. They caneither be embedded or the can be on the file system. For MFC Dll's MSdecided...
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Signing with a Verisign 2048 bit Cert
This entry is a little out of order for my manifest discussion; however,I've finally mastered this monstrosity and its a good time to share thethe...
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Generating SxS Manifests
The visual studio ide provides limited support for Reg Free COM generation but its not really a complete solution. I decided to bail on using it....
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Manifest Embedding and Activation
First, you cannot understand manifests without understanding the Activation Context (ActCtx) API. I'll go into more details later, but the ActCtx API...
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What is a manifest?
There are a few types of manifest formats that I understand: Application, Assembly, SxS Assembly, and Dependency. Application manifests will usually...
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Real world implementation of Reg Free Com (WinSxS)
.NET has taken over much of Windows development; however, for those of us that have large applications in COM we can't simply jump ship. COM/C++ is...
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