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Implementing per-monitor DPI awareness 7 Aug 2013 | 12:10 am
Windows 8.1 will soon offer the ability to use different DPI scaling settings for different monitors. This is a cool feature, but one that will need some fixup in existing programs, particularly since...
Odd requirement for the Set Program Associations UI in Windows 8 21 May 2013 | 05:36 am
Okay, this is another one of those frustrating bugs that took me hours to track down and had a cause so unbelievable I had to check it six times: why the Set Program Associations UI dialog refused to ...
File dialogs break in capture mode with UScreenCapture driver 19 May 2013 | 06:06 pm
If you are using VirtualDub with the UScreenCapture driver to capture video from the desktop screen, you may run into problems with the Set Capture File option in VirtualDub not bringing up a file dia...
Wat 7 Mar 2013 | 05:04 am
Visual Studio 2005 has an amusing description of the /SWAPRUN:NET linker option: Presumably, a poor soul in charge of the help text was told "go document this" without proper backup. It seems this wa...
Another common controls V6 bug 4 Feb 2013 | 03:53 am
Here is a stack trace of a Win32 program being debugged under WinDbg. Can you guess what the bug is from this stack trace? 0:000> kbChildEBP RetAddr Args to Child 0018f470 70582d28 00000...
Drawing text in a 3D program 31 Dec 2012 | 03:49 am
Every once in a while I hear someone say that 2D APIs are old and deprecated and that 3D APIs are the way to go for 2D rendering. This drives me nuts. Sure, in a 3D API like OpenGL or Direct3D, it's e...
VirtualDub 1.10.3 released 27 Dec 2012 | 09:31 pm
Release early, release... eventually. VirtualDub 1.10.3 is out. It contains a number of bug fixes along with a couple of small things on the side. Several of the video filters have had additional fixe...
Don't use Windows Backup 25 Oct 2012 | 01:40 am
Okay, I'm now very late to this party, but let me say: don't use Windows Backup (Backup and Restore). Just don't. I attempted to use it to clone a Windows 7 installation onto a new hard drive, after r...
Thanks, but only my computer speaks Japanese 3 Sep 2012 | 09:19 pm
Due to some recent testing, I currently have the system locale on my Windows 7 x64 system set to Japanese, but with location and language settings still set to US English. I haven't changed it back be...
Platform support on Visual Studio 2012 26 Aug 2012 | 07:19 pm
Much has been said about the lack of support for targeting Windows XP in the RTM version of Visual Studio 2012. However, it looks like there are also ominous clouds on the horizon for Vista. I happene...
