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July 2006 - Posts

Issue with application manifests on XP

Someone forgot to test for this: Create an application manifest document (e.g. foo.exe.manifest ) and include it as part of your foo application. Mark the <xml> tag with the encoding="UTF-8" atribute. Compile and test your sample app; works as expected.
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Custom Remote Desktop window sizes

Here's a good tip from Kudzu's blog : I use remote desktop a lot. But 800x600 is too small, and if I use 1024x768 then it goes full screen and its not convenient to move between host and guest easily. To compound this, I run multiple remote desktops as
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A gotcha with the SetLocalTime API

Its been a long time between posts; I've been consumed by the tail end of a major project, including a number of longer-than-expected overseas trips. Anyway, to the issue at hand: If your code calls SetLocalTime take special note of the documentation
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