Tutorials

Update a TFS team project manually to support code reviews

Posted on March 22, 2018April 20, 2018 by Marius Bancila

If you are working with TFS and have projects created in older versions you might want to use features available in newer versions of TFS (given that you have updated to such a newer version). These features could be code reviews, feedback, my work, storyboarding, and others. In this post, I will explain how to manually modify the team project settings to enable code review. You can only do this is you have proper access rights.

How to Determine What Process Loaded a DLL

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Marius Bancila

Trying to figure out in which process a particular DLL is currently loaded, I have found two solutions (perhaps there are more). Solution 1: tasklist.exe tasklist /m <modulename>.dll Solution 2: listdlls.exe (from sysinternals) listdlls -d <modulename>.dll It might be that listdlls is more reliable than tasklist. I have ran into cases when tasklist failed to…

DocProject Tips and Tricks

Posted on March 23, 2012September 21, 2015 by Marius Bancila

DocProject with Sandcastle are a great choice for creating MSDN-style documentation. You can author conceptual documentation using MAML (Microsoft Assistance Markup Language) and reference documentation from managed assemblies and XML comments. Here is the documentation for DocProject. Writing conceptual documentation I ran into some problems that were not straight forward to solve. Hopefully these tips…

32-bit and 64-bit COM Servers

Posted on November 4, 2010May 19, 2011 by Marius Bancila

It is possible to register both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the same COM server on 64-bit machine. This leads to several questions such as how are they registered and which one of the two is used. I will try to answer them below. But first, let’s start with an example. Example Let’s say we…

COM Apartments

Posted on June 28, 2010May 19, 2011 by Marius Bancila

If you work with COM, apartments is one of the concepts you must comprehend, because it’s an important topic. Before explaining what apartments are let’s think about classes and objects regardless of COM. When you build a class, you know (or you should) whether objects of that class will be used from a single thread,…

.NET out string[] to Automation SAFEARRAY**

Posted on July 23, 2009May 20, 2011 by Marius Bancila

.NET allows you to expose components as COM and consume them from unmanaged code. There are many references on how to this (and you can only start with MSDN), and I will not talk about that part. What I want to explain here is something different. Suppose you have this interface: [Guid(“2F8433FE-4771-4037-B6B2-ED5F6585ED04”)] [InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIDispatch)] public interface…

Project Tuva

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Marius Bancila

Project Tuva is an enhanced video player created by Microsoft Research to freely host the lectures give my Richard Feynman at the Cornell University in the ’60s. Bill Gates saw the lectures two decades ago, was impressed with them and wanted to make them freely available. Now, it finally happened. You can watch them at…

Arrays in F#

Posted on March 26, 2008March 26, 2008 by Marius Bancila

Yesterday I wrote about list in F#. Today I’ll write about arrays, which unlike lists are a mutable flat storage and cannot be resized. That means you have to create a new array if you want to remove or add elements. Advantages include constant look-up time and the fact that they can store a large…

Lists in F#

Posted on March 25, 2008March 25, 2008 by Marius Bancila

In this post I will talk about the lists in F#, one of the fundamental concepts of the language. What should be said from the very beginning is that list are imutable single linked list. That means whenever you change a list, a new list is created. You can declare a list in the following…