Rob
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Jun 02 2011
How to install VC++ update KB2455033
Head to the Visual C++ Team’s blog entry entitled “MS11-025 Visual C++ Update Issue“, scroll down to the section entitled “Visual Studio 2010 RTM with Windows SDK”, and follow the instructions there. For completeness sake, here they are: If you have Visual Studio 2010 RTM and Windows SDK 7.1 installed on an x64 machine, then …
Feb 21 2011
Windows Phone 7 Version Information
I was working with the updated version of the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) emulator and was curious to find out what software versions were running on it. Here is the output I got: (Sorry, this picture was lost. ?) For those of you who search for this kind of information, the plain text: OS Platform: …
Feb 17 2011
If Windows Azure Cmdlets v1.3 Won’t Install
I downloaded the latest Windows Azure Cmdlets to manage my cloud storage at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/azurecmdlets. However, it could find my installed Azure SDK v1.3. If running the “C:\WASMCmdlets\startHere.cmd” fails to find the “Windows Azure Software Development Kit 1.3” on the “Detecting Required Software” screen, it is because it is looking for version 1.3.11122.0038 of the SDK. …
Feb 12 2011
When Microsoft Word Won’t Start
If you try to run Microsoft Word and it crashes before it even opens, look for a normal.dot or normal.dotx file in your user profile and rename it to normal.dotm.old. Then try restarting Word. On Windows XP this file can usually be found in: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates On Windows Vista and Windows 7 this …
Oct 06 2010
C++ Casting Operators
I often get confused about the different types of C++ casts: dynamic_cast can be used for “upcasting” or “downcasting”
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Upcasting:Â Â Â A* pA = dynamic_cast<A*>(pB)Â when B inherits from A |
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Downcasting:Â B* pB = dynamic_cast<B*>(pA)Â when B inherits from A |
static_cast static_cast conversions are not as safe as dynamic_cast conversions, because static_cast does no run-time type check, while dynamic_cast does. A dynamic_cast to an ambiguous pointer will fail, while a static_cast returns as if …