Author Archives: Sheng Jiang 蒋晟

About Sheng Jiang 蒋晟

Microsoft MVP in Visual C , 2004- Forum moderator of the Visual C and .Net forums on CSDN Forum moderator of Chinese forums on Microsoft's MSDN forums

When you get a System.BadImageFormatException. maybe you indeed have a bad system image.

Posted on 08/02/2013

I am getting a StackOverflowException with two functions repeating on the call stack, one is the constructor of System.BadImageFormatException, another is System.Environment.GetResourceStringLocal.  Since the call that throws the stack overflow is to a web service proxy defined in the same project as the application, … Continue reading →

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How to restart Windows Explorer programmatically using Restart manager

Posted on 22/01/2013

For shell extension programmers, restart Windows Explorer is one of steps in their setup programs. A programmer may also want to force some shell setting changes that would only be read by Explorer on start up. For example, this posts … Continue reading →

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How to: Migrating a CLR console Visual C++ project to Windows Forms

Posted on 17/12/2012

Note: Windows Forms programming in new development is discouraged by Microsoft at this point as Microsoft wants to make full use of hardware accelerated drawing instead of using the CPU-intensive GDI. But maintaining old Windows Forms code in Visual C++ 2012 is … Continue reading →

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Add the correct interface first in Adding an MFC Class from an ActiveX Control wizard.

Posted on 04/12/2012

In good old times aka VC6, if you want to use an ActiveX in MFC, the Components and Controls Gallery would generate all the properties and methods of an ActiveX and pull dependent types and create wrapper classes for them as … Continue reading →

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Howto: reset IE security zone settings programmatically

Posted on 26/11/2012

Internet Explorer 7 introduced the IInternetZoneManagerEx2 interface, which has a FixUnsecureSettings method to reset all security zone settings. Like all other IInternetZoneManager* interfaces, you can query this interface from the internet zone manager object: IInternetZoneManagerEx2* pzoneManager=NULL; HRESULT hr=CoCreateInstance(CLSID_InternetZoneManager ,NULL,CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,IID_IInternetZoneManagerEx2,(LPVOID*)&pzoneManager); if(hr==S_OK && pzoneManager!=NULL) { … Continue reading →

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What’s new in MFC/ATL 11 Beta

Posted on 22/04/2012

Note this post is on Visual Studio 11 Beta, you can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads Since Sinofsky posted about no desktop apps on Windows on ARM (WOA), it looks like MFC and ATL are going to support metro-style apps, although … Continue reading →

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Choosing formats when putting data on clipboard

Posted on 21/03/2012

The topic is from a forum discussion at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowssdk/thread/94bb2db4-3ca2-4cd8-9f7c-6dd9aab6fd18 Generally an application should provide data in as many formats as possible so more applications can recognize the data. For example, IE stores text data in CF_UNICODETEXT, CF_TEXT and CF_HTML formats. Because … Continue reading →

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What’s new in Windows 8 Developer Preview SDK headers

Posted on 17/09/2011

This is by no means a complete list but just some observation on files that caught my eye. Some are just regular header file updates for Windows 7 and does not necessary require Windows 8. Some other APIs moved to … Continue reading →

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Where is the forum for Internet Explorer?

Posted on 21/07/2011

People get confused by various Microsoft IE forum sites so here is the steps to find the forum closer to IE related questions if the task in question is using IE http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum manage IE on someone else’s machine, or IE … Continue reading →

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Windows Update KB2538242 or KB2538243 offered repeatedly

Posted on 24/06/2011

Recently there is an outburst of posts related to the KB2538242 update being offered repeatedly on MSDN’s Visual C++ forums, TechNet’s various Windows security forums and the Windows Update forum on Microsoft Answers forums. Questions about KB2538243 appear as well, … Continue reading →

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