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Archive for August 6th, 2013

CLR week on the Old New Thing has started: first one about Static Constructors

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/06

Finally a new CLR Week on the Old New Thing.

It starts with via: Why does BitConverter.LittleEndian return false on my x86 machine? which is all about static constructors.

So you should read these as well:

(Note that virtually anything from Eric Lippert and Jon Skeet it worth reading anyway).

–jeroen

via: Why does BitConverter.LittleEndian return false on my x86 machine? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

It works! Install Visual Studio 2010 AFTER Visual Studio 2012 – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/06

Never thought this would work so smoothly: Install Visual Studio 2010 AFTER Visual Studio 2012 – Stack Overflow.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Software Development, VB.NET, VB.NET 10.0, VB.NET 11.0, VB.NET 8.0, VB.NET 9.0, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | 7 Comments »

delphi – Winrollback/DeepFreeze How these softwares work? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/06

StackOverflow user opcOde wrote something interesting:

Writing device drivers in delphi is hard to impossible.

Here is an attempt to write drivers in delphi.

It is funny to see the link pointing to the DelphiBasics site: Advanced Delphi Driver Development Kit – DelphiBasics.

On my list of things to remember: might come in very useful one day (:

Note that opcOde also has an interesting blog: opc0de | just another enthusiastic coder.

–jeroen

via delphi – Winrollback/DeepFreeze How these softwares work? – Stack Overflow.

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2010, Delphi 7, Development, Software Development | 9 Comments »

Reminiscence of the past: Delphi I/O error 131

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/06

I was called by a client that didn’t want to do maintenance on an old Delphi application, but wanted to get dir of an I/O Error 131:

I/O Error 131: ERROR_NEGATIVE_SEEK

MessageText: An attempt was made to move the file pointer before the beginning of the file.

Tough luck: psychic powers told me someone is using an unsigned 32-bit integer to access a file using traditional style Assign/Reset/Seek/Read/Close patterns that Delphi kept as intrinsic routines for Turbo Pascal backward compatibility, and that file has grown over 2 gigabyte in size.

I quickly found an import file had grown over the 2 gigabyte, so this was indeed the case.

The original developers didn’t do the file access using the 64-bit Seek/Position of the TStream descendant TFileStream.

Too bad, as now someone has to dig through the mothballs to find the sources (if they survived 3 different version control system switches), create a working development environment, and fix the bug.

Another instance where technical debt in IT raises its ugly head and the compound interest is really expensive.

–jeroen

via: erikmartin.com – IO Errors in Delphi.

Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Delphi 5, Development, Event, Software Development, Technical Debt | 14 Comments »

 
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