Monthly Archives: June 2004

1) Get New Mail 2) Read it with OWA 3) Notice that the envelope icon in the taskbar doesn’t go away, even if you double click it and see there are no new messages. You can right click on the … Continue reading →

this is so broken. I installed the Bitstream Vera fonts (download from here) on Windows XP. I rebooted, changed font display options from 120 dpi to 96 dpi (which is more appropriate anyway since I’m only running at 1280×1024, to … Continue reading →

If, for some reason, I append “.exe” to devenv, when running a command line build in a batch file, the build runs but is completely silent. If I copy and paste that same command into a regular command prompt window, … Continue reading →

Apparently (and I say only “apparently” because I’m not too big on testing this) — if I leave a process in the debug state using the MSVC.NET debugger and the screen saver kicks in, after I unlock the screen the … Continue reading →

Ugh, pimpl makes things WORSE, not better. I can’t complete on the pimpl struct at all when implementing class methods that use it — and often not anywhere after that either. Man, what a terrible IDE.

Ok, the title might be a slightly rhetorical question: I’m writing an application in C++ using VStudio.NET and Windows XP. The application asserts an error, I choose to examine it under a debugger, I fix the error, stop the application, … Continue reading →