Hi, I have been trying to use the Vista's new Task Dialog and some how i get this error on when calling the TaskDialogIndirect in my code? I understand that this requires Vista and am doing it on Vista am wondering what could be the problem? Have anyone else seen this on vista? The comctr32.dll version is not v6 on my vista machine (which as per msdn is required for the task dialog?) the question is how could it be and if how can i get the newer v6 dll??? Thanks in advance :) Shoaib

Joan Murt wrote:

It seems that the service that runs on our server (the one that handles all the queries from our computers) leaks memory. Even if I stop the service it doesn't frees all the memory that it has occupied.

Is it really possible? As i understand once the process dies. The memory is reclaimed by the OS!? Pardon me for the ignorance :) .. just enlightening myself :)

Thanks ... :)

Hi, Just needed a little guidance. Am creating a drive imaging utility mostly to understand the working. Can anyone guide me to a tutorial/example to make images of HDD on windows/linux using C/C++. Just the right direction will suffice. I tried googling it but all i get are the softwares to create the images not the actually approach to the problems. thanks.

My pleasure :)

Hi, First, best of luck with the interviews. I've gone through the whole process twice and got selected in the second try (obviously, failed in the first :P). Anyways, the process is quite simple. Expect small yet hard to crack riddles/programming questions. Remember, if a question is taking too long to make sense or if your writing too much code to solve something your probably off the track. THINK ALOUD AND ASK FOR CLARIFICATIONS, this probably is the best advice i can give you. They are never looking for the solution just your thinking pattern. By the way, everyone will give you an introduction before starting the interview. Listen to it carefully, this will help you in writing code. How? For example, If the interviewer is a manager for a test group, make sure you place checks in your code, WHEREEVER POSSIBLE :). The vice versa works for manager from the development teams, they value efficiency more (well to support the argument, its quite simple to get the BSOD in windows :P). This doesn't mean you don't need to check your input. Its always a good idea to ask the interviewer explicitly about the checks. Lastly, 5 interviews are not a must. I got selected after 4.5 :) (two guys in the fourth interview, i agree theoretically its 5) but if your really good they might select you in 3 interviews. Moreover, some people posted earlier about the relocation. Frankly, i think they have the best relocation benefits you can find. I hope this helps. If you have any further queries drop me an email and I'll try to help you as much as possible. Chao!

Thanks alot, i guess this will work :)

Luc Pattyn wrote:

It will not be an easy task though; I would not consider doing it if I can avoid it.

Lets just say i don't seem to have a choice :( and i have to do it :@. Now how to go about it? :sigh: Thanks.

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to simulate a file in windows? i.e. The file doesn't actually exist in the file system but i can open it in any application and my executable (or dll/fsd) provides run time data to that application for that file? e.g. C:\Windows\notepad non-existent-file.txt The above command will open notepad and the notepad will try to access the file 'non-existent-file.txt' in the current directory. This file as the name implies doesn't actually exist and i want the OS to provide my application's dynamically provided data? What i am really interested is the right direction? Is it possible? and do i need to write a File System Driver or some hooking is available in Windows? Thanks in advance.

I think that books are becoming more and more important nowadays! I know this seems like a sweeping statement but let me justify it :). Lets assume your learning C. Now you can find thousands of articles online but do they guarantee you the following? 1. Enough exercises? 2. Consistency of material? 3. Accuracy? 4. Organization? ... I can go on and on! Moreover, continuing our above example. If i am new to C i won't have a clue where to start? What should i search? Pointers? Arrays? Data types? Chances are i will miss more then one of them and will be scratching my head 90% of the time :). BTW you can find all the news online (feeds, e-papers), its actually faster and up-to-date then the print counterpart but do they really threat the newspaper? :) I would say books are great to build your foundations and online articles can help you the latter construction of the technological wall! Chao!

Get me 2 :P... Anyways lets give it a shot! am in :)

Thanks people!

I have investigated the problem .. here are my findings... my assemblies are strong name signed.. but a simple Assembly.LoadFrom(..) fails? giving me a FileLoadException? The load is successful if i do it from a local path.. but on a network path it fails! :(

well basically both the machines are dev machines! so i have .net framework and everything else i can concieve installed on both the machines :(

Hi, I am facing a problem ... I have a project, when i try to run the executables from a network path the assemblies fail to load. Where as the executables work perfectly fine when run from a local path. My guess is this has to do something with the .NET security. Any ideas, thoughts????? Thanks in advance :)

hi, can you mail me the book as well at je_shoaib@hotmail.com thanks

The pleasure is all mine :->

As far as i remember Office 2007 provides this functionality built in .. export the doc to pdf. You can use the automation object for Winword to achieve this if they export the functionality. I havent worked on it but just to give you direction :doh:

As calculating cosines and sines is expensive, another optimization could be to just calculate them once and make a table for the values ( may in application startup ) this will considerably increase the speed :). If you are rotating these values multiple times. A question you might ask is but the value for the angle could be infinte and hence the table size. The catch here is every angle's cosine/sine is equal to an angle b/w 0-180 (0-pie).. so pratically you need only a table of 180 entries :). I hope this help! enjoy

I think the problem lies with the resource file being used.. As the dialogue template is in your DLL, where as your main app searches the template in its own resources and consequently dont find anything :).. Try using the dll's resources :).. try using the FindResource(..) function and then creating the dialogue from the template returned by the function :).. I hope it helps :) enjoy.