I’ve had some very interesting experiences when calling customer support, but last week a call to Comcast resulted in a whole new experience for me. After being on hold for about 5 minutes, listening to some of the most awful music you could possibly round up, a girl picks up. She greets me and then [...]
Entries from January 2008
Please wait as I have to reboot my PC!
January 26th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Tags: General
Article : Deploying MFC applications via ClickOnce
January 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Recently I had the task of deploying an MFC application suite along with its dependencies via ClickOnce. Visual Studio does not directly support deployment of MFC applications (even if it’s compiled with /clr) and one of the suggested solutions I found on the web was to have a stub C# executable which would launch the [...]
Tags: C++ · CLR/.NET BCL · Win32/MFC
Really getting design patterns
January 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
The CEO of my first company (who was an old time assembler/C programmer even before I was born) liked to periodically quote, “you either get pointers or you don’t”. I believe I’ve seen variants of that on the web – but I just did some Googling and could not find out who made the original [...]
Tags: General