Monthly Archives: April 2009

Debugging DICOM Query/Retrieve Communication

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Ofek Shilon

I recently had the questionable pleasure of writing a DICOM Q/R-module, for communication with a PACS. A future post may be dedicated to letting some steam out, and listing in detail the reasons I consider DICOM to be the worst … Continue reading →

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Sound Alerts on VS Events – Revisited

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Ofek Shilon

I started using the sound alerts on a machine with VS2008 express – and I just learnt that this tweak works for VS2003 and VS2008 but not VS2005. Here’s how it (apparently) came about: First, MS deliberately took it out. … Continue reading →

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Sound alerts on VS events

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Ofek Shilon

When a build is more than a few seconds, I often drift off – to either productive or unproductive activity, but anyway into something I must snap out of. So for me personally, the following just discovered tweak can be … Continue reading →

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Coding Binary as Binary

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Ofek Shilon

If you’re comfortable with hex, you have no business in this post.  If on the other hand, when faced with a mask like 0xFFA8 you’re forced – like me – to translate it on paper into 11111111 10101000,  then by … Continue reading →

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Naming threads

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Ofek Shilon

There is a nice feature that is all but undocumented, and has next to no web presence too:  you can give your threads meaningful names. While this is trivial in managed code, it is hardly obvious for native.  The TIB … Continue reading →

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Debugging Native Memory Leaks, Part 1: LeakDiag

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Ofek Shilon

Leaking memory is probably the single most painful aspect of native code – its the reason managed was ever born. At work, our code routes ‘new’ calls through_aligned_malloc_dbg. This CRT API, along with cousins like _malloc_dbg and _calloc_dbg, takes extra … Continue reading →

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