Synergy

Synergy
nice when you have two desktops :)

Larry Osterman's WebLog : Does __fastcall make a difference for C++ classes?

Larry Osterman's WebLog : Does __fastcall make a difference for C++ classes?: "Considering the way .NET programs have to declare their uses of unmanaged DLLs, it sure looks like __stdcall and __thiscall."

Larry Osterman's WebLog : Useful service tricks - Debugging service startup

Larry Osterman's WebLog : Useful service tricks - Debugging service startup: "Useful service tricks - Debugging service startup"

Best Practices for Creating DLLs

Best Practices for Creating DLLs

DllMain keeps on popping up as a pain point for developers. Heck, just yesterday we found an old bug where a component was calling CoFreeUnusedLibraries in its DllMain function.

So it was really cool that this morning I came in and discovered an email (from the PM who owns the DLL loader) about a new article that was posted with best practices for authoring DLLs (in particular DllMain).