Author Archives: Ofek Shilon

Blank Variable Watch, or OMF Errors

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Ofek Shilon

During a debugging session I faced a weird situation where the code compiled and ran just fine, yet some class members appeared blank at the watch window, and others showed – CXX0033: error in OMF type information Skip to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Debugging, VC++ | Leave a comment

Three F-keys Gotchas

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Ofek Shilon

We recently did a small internal app, that had to use all 12 F-keys – which turned out to be surprisingly cumbersome. I hadn’t found this stuff concentrated on a single place, and certainly it could have saved me some … Continue reading →

Posted in MFC, Win32 | 4 Comments

StepOver Revisited

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Ofek Shilon

Andy Pennell exposed in 2004 (and I mentioned in 2009) a very useful undocumented VC feature: when you wish to avoid stepping into nagging functions (ctors, refcounts, whatever), you can specify them in the StepOver registry key. It supports RegExp’s … Continue reading →

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Integrating Matlab with Team Foundation Server 2010

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Ofek Shilon

I just managed to pull this integration off, and the process definitely deserves more web presence. First, as of 2011, Matlab (I never understood the shout-ish MATLAB spelling) consumes only MSSCCI source control connections, which a Team Explorer installation does … Continue reading →

Posted in Matlab, Source Control | 4 Comments

Reading Monitor Physical Dimensions, or: Getting the EDID, the Right Way

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Ofek Shilon

  Edit: an improvement is published in a separate post We recently needed to know the physical size of monitors on customer machines. Getting it right was a surprisingly tedious research – and definitely something that deserves more web presence … Continue reading →

Posted in Win32 | 44 Comments

Source Control Binding, Part 2: SAK and SOURCE_CONTROL_SETTINGS_PROVIDER

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Ofek Shilon

In a previous post I shared one form of binding trouble, which had to do with MSSCCPRJ.scc location on disk. A side note there reminded me of another issue – … The choice of binding location is controlled via a … Continue reading →

Posted in Source Control | 2 Comments

$(TargetDir) Bug, or: Where Did My PDB Go?

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Ofek Shilon

Edit: This is now a confirmed VS bug. Hope the Connect page would be updated when it is resolved. Try this (if you weren’t bitten by this issue already): 1. Create a new C++ project – any project type will … Continue reading →

Posted in VC++, Visual Studio | 1 Comment

Slides from the Windows Developers User Group Meeting

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Ofek Shilon

Thanks goes to everyone who attended! As promised at the meeting, I’ve uploaded the presentation. The slides by themselves are rather thin, as almost the entire meeting was spent in visual studio. However, I left out various syntax details – … Continue reading →

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"The solution appears to be under source control", or: How P4 messes up MSSCCPRJ.scc Location

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Ofek Shilon

For a long while we faced an annoying issue with source control binding:  we’d load some solution and this would pop up: We’d then fix it using File/Source control/Change source control/Bind:   And all seemed well – until we loaded … Continue reading →

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‘Internal CPS Error’ When Adding A Project Reference

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Ofek Shilon

Edit: This is now a confirmed VS bug. Occasionally I get this – – when trying to add a reference from one project to another in VS2010. I’ve no idea what CPS is and what shim object they’re talking about, … Continue reading →

Posted in Visual Studio | 9 Comments