Posted in 2008

Visual C++ 10 和 MFC 10的新特性

Boris Jabes 和Damien Watkins将会在PDC上演示Visual C++10中的新功能。IDE的新功能包括基于SQL Compact的智能提示支持自定义插件的新的项目和编译系统、面向大型应用的优化和改善的调试体验。MFC库增加了对Windows 7 中新增的多点触摸检测功能高DPI支持,以及Windows Vista中集成的功能,例如高彩图标Windows 搜索重启管理器。Visual C++程序员们才习惯不用MFC来直接调API。

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Type ‘System.Web.UI.WebControls.Parameter’ does not have a public property named ‘DbType’

In Visual C# 2005 SP1, I added an object data source to a web page that uses my business class as the select method. The method has one parameter of type Guid. The data source wizard generates code like this

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When Microsoft Office Live Meets Google Chrome

To use Microsoft Office Live, your computer must meet one of the following requirements:

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Feedback from Microsoft

image1Looks like the Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence award I got a few years ago…

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MFC Feature Pack发布

Visual C++项目组今天发布了Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack。这个Feature Pack包含了一些以前需要付费给BCG Soft才可以使用的控件,例如BCG著名的窗口布局和风格自定义功能,不过也有一些有用的控件,例如文件夹列表文件夹树属性窗格等等。

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Detect if a MSI component is installed

A C# program for those who don’t know MSI SDK or C++. C++ programmers can find the API inside the msi.h  file in Windows SDK.

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Hard Drive Broke

The first 3 Dell support technicians tried to persuade me to clean the temp files, to remove unnecessary startup programs and to reinstall Windows. It does not help if the computer complains an error during self test. I keep saying a self test error can not be solved by twisting the OS, but they won’t listen. After educating the representatives for a week I finally got one that has better experience (and better English) to examine my computer. A full system test shows bad sectors on the hard drive, and totally toasted the hard drive. Luckily I just bought the computer for 6 months so I asked for a replacement. Dell sent me one in 2 days and I sent back the broken one.

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Smart harddrive error

In case anyone is googling this message

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MFC更新Beta版

一个面向Visual C++ 2008的MFC更新测试版已经发布,同时也提供了文档的下载。这个版本包含新的界面的特性,例如Office Ribbon、2003和XP风格,Visual Studio风格和MDI标签。另外,这个版本也包含部分TR1的实现,例如正则表达式、更加丰富的集合和智能指针。 另外,在下载页面居然说这个版本还不支持Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1的Beta版,正式版才出来几天SP1的测试版就出来了?

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