I noticed again this morning that Quicken was still unable to download my credit card transactions online. It hasn’t worked since some time in February. The error message said that my PIN or Customer ID was wrong. I know I’ve double-checked the PIN previously, so I figured it must be the user name that was the problem. This led me to think about a few ways that the Quicken user interface is deficient. Read the rest of this entry »

This morning I was asked to enable the Windows XP visual styles for our application. No problem — I’ve done that for applications many times. Just drop the appropriate manifest file in the right place, call InitCommonControls and all should be well. When I tried that this morning, though, I got an error message: “An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly. Please contact the application’s support team for more information.” I suspected our support team wasn’t going to be much help on this one. The Visual C++ 2005 runtime library configuration strikes again. Read the rest of this entry »