Developing Windows Applications by Mykola Dudar

Helping Developers Build Applications for Windows using Visual Studio.

Q&A on adapting VS2005 SP1 to build your applications

When VS2005 SP1 has been released, because of manifests it become more visible what version of VC++...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 02/09/2007

Silent installs of VCRedist.EXE shipped with VS2005

Aaron has a post on his blog that describes way of silent install of VCRedist.EXE. I though I would...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 02/08/2007

ATL Server as shared source project

Great news - ATL Server is moving to a shared source project. If you have not already noticed, it...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 01/24/2007

Discussing Visual C++ product strategy

There is an interesting post on VC++ Orcas forum, which I thought I would link to from my blog....

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 01/03/2007

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!

May the happiness of your family, the warmth of love, the joy of friendship and companion surround...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 12/24/2006

Another update to STL/CLR is integrated.

As I have announced on VC Blog, VC++ libraries team has integrated another big updated to STL/CLR....

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 12/22/2006

STL/CLR specification is available online

Just in case people have not noticed this yet, I would like to bring your attention to the fact that...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 11/22/2006

First public release of STL/CLR in Orcas is available now!

The first public release of STL/CLR in Orcas is available for download. This version of STL/CLR has...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 09/30/2006

Junfeng Zhang describing ways of diagnosing SxS failures

Junfeng has an interesting walkthrough on how diagnose SxS failures and brief introduction of new...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 08/28/2006

More information about STL/CLR

Ale is a developer in VC Libraries team who works on STL/CLR. He has just described on vcblog areas...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 08/03/2006

Aero Wizards (Windows Vista style wizards) in MFC8 (VS2005)

Almost a year ago I was looking on new Vista features to estimate amount of changes to an existing...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 07/10/2006

Calling methods of deleted object

I came across an interesting discussion today. A person who asked the question called a method of...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 07/07/2006

Generic Interfaces in STL/CLR

Today I would like to start introducing parts in STL/CLR library which are not present in STL. In...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 07/03/2006

Found issue with comments...

I found an issue with my blog settings that explains why comments to some of my posts are not...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/28/2006

STL/CLR comparing to STL

I continue introducing to STL/CLR. In this post I would like to describe what parts of STL library...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/28/2006

Norton WinDoctor errors about msvcr80.dll

Another email came in my inbox today. It is about Norton WinDoctor issuing errors about msvcr80.dll....

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/28/2006

Codeguru slow chat or where I spend my time

Sorry, I know I promised more information about STL/CLR and did not keep my promise last two days....

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/22/2006

What is STL/CLR

STL/CLR, originally called STL.NET, is an implementation of Standard Template Library (STL) that can...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/16/2006

Where is STL/CLR

Well, finally I have a good news. We have started working on preparing STL/CLR (former called...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/16/2006

Visual C++ Team Blog

Visual C++ team has started a blog dedicated to announcing feature and planning changes, share views...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/01/2006

Martyn talking about VC++ Libraries

You may find Channel9 interview with Martyn. He talks about about VC++ libraries in general and...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 04/27/2006

Applocal deployment of MFC localized resource DLLs

It was pointed out to me that it is not clear from Docs how to redistribute MFC localized DLLs with...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 04/24/2006

Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package is released to the web

VCRedist.exe can now be downloaded from the Microsoft site. This package contains VS2005 RTM...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 04/11/2006

Embed manifest with makefiles in VS2005

It is pointed out to me that MSDN example on how to embed manifest is focused on changes into one...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 03/23/2006

Release of STL/CLR (STL.NET)

I have an update for everyone interested in STL/CLR (used to be called STL.Net). During the last few...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 02/07/2006

Feedback on VS2005

You probably already know that VS2005 has been released. Just a small note. One can still use...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 11/10/2005

VS2005 docs are online!

I would like to let readers know that most of material that I have on my blog in regard of Fusion...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 10/19/2005

Running C++ application built by VC++ Express on another computer

Another FAQ from VC++ Express users is: "I give my VC++ application to my friend, and it does not...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 09/02/2005

Visual C++ on PDC 2005

If you have not heard that already, just a reminder that PDC is in two weeks. I will fly to LA only...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 08/25/2005

Avalon and Win32

Nick Kramer has posted a draft of his paper on integration of Win32 and Avalon. Great read. Take a...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 07/19/2005

Enabling anonymous comments

I was just informed that external folks cannot comment on my posts. Sorry, my mistake. I think it...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 07/19/2005

Complete example for MFC/Winforms integration

Just posted on MSDN a sample of MFC/Windows Forms integration as it is in Visual Studio 2005. Please...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 07/19/2005

Speak up if you use #define _HAS_EXCEPTIONS

I am trying to understand number of customers use this #define and user scenarios it is currently...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/29/2005

cannot access private member error when porting MFC project

On the forum, we have surfaced another error. I had a chance today to see a real-world code with...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/16/2005

Share your experience of using third party static libs and problems you encounter

Quite commonly know problem is that if you have a 3rd party static library and you switch to new...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/14/2005

Windows Forms and MFC Integration using CWinFormDialog

One of the primary scenarios around integration of Windows Forms into an existing MFC application is...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/10/2005

How to Debug 'The System cannot Execute the specified program' message.

Here is another unofficial preview of a topic that I am going to send out to our UE team later today...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/09/2005

Fusion Docs

I am helping our UE team (folks that work on MSDN docs) with topics on Fusion and how to debug...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/09/2005

Why I see ''Embedding manifest...'' message in Output window?

Well, time flies fast. It was two month since my last post here. One may ask what I was doing all...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/05/2005

How to embed manifest inside C/C++ binary using makefiles

Here is an unofficial preview of sample that is going to be available soon on MSDN. As always,...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 06/05/2005

New VC++ PMs are online!

Welcome Boris Jabes, our PM for IDE team, his blog is on on msdn https://blogs.msdn.com/borisj.

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 04/08/2005

Resolving application dependency on Visual C++ libraries

When you use Visual C++ to build windows applications, a key step to guarantee that your application...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 03/18/2005

KB on bufferoverflowU.lib

Available as of today (I guess) 894573 You may receive the "Linker tools error LNK2001" error...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 03/09/2005

Using tools without installing Visual Studio

Recently another issue has come up another FAQ. Folks try using tools without installing Visual...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 02/10/2005

Shipping apps using SxS assemblies

This came up one more time today, so I have decide to blog two links to well-done KB articles. 1)...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 02/07/2005

April Reagan is blogging

https://blogs.msdn.com/aprilr April is VC Box PM. Take a look on her introduction to learn what this...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 02/07/2005

MSN Search has been released!

Read the press release https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/msn/default.asp I have downloaded...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 02/01/2005

Linking to MFC and CRT dynamically and statically in one image

If you link your MFC application that consumes MFC static lib, often you may encounter a situation...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 01/28/2005

Deprecation warnings for C Runtime functions when using Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 or CTP

I am constatly being asked same question on and on. "I have an old code that uses a CRT function and...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 01/28/2005

Quite a frequently asked questions. You build your code using recent build of the platform SDK and...

Author: Nikola Dudar Date: 01/28/2005

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