Category : C++

20 Mar

Vista and Visual Studio Remote Debugger

by Marco Mastropaolo

If you want to run Remote Debugger under Windows Vista you might encounter problems with the firewall. Check this : http://www.wintellect.com/cs/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2007/03/14/visual-studio-2005-remote-debugging-to-vista.aspx Also, you can run Remote debugger without installing Visual Studio 2005, just by copying the files.

Filed Under: C++, Programming, Win32

26 Oct

IE7, Javascript, the WebBrowser control and bugs

by Marco Mastropaolo

Problem Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) has been released. Applications around the world are breaking. … Well at least mine failed. If you use the WebBrowser control in .NET applications or shdocwv ActiveX control you may hit this issue. If you load the html by navigating to “about:blank” and then using DocumentText, AND you are including [...]

21 Oct

Unbelievable Optimization X

by Marco Mastropaolo

This is something which happened some years ago. There was some-project I won’t name(*) (let’s just say it was a server emulator of some popular MMORPG), with their development forum. I found a post suggesting an optimization they were going to implement. Basically the file saving phase was something like this : if (someplayer->hp != [...]