File System Monitoring
At times it is useful to keep tabs on what is happening (or has happened) in the file system. This is a brief overview of all the ways I know of to track activity on a Windows file system.
Scanning is the brute-force approach to knowing what is happening …
Packing and Alignment
I've made some effort to understand the differences between the Struct
Member Alignment compiler option /Zp, #pragma pack and
__declspec(align()) with Microsoft Visual C++ in light of an odd bug
that ultimately was caused by inconsistent packing options between
compilation units.
/Zp and #pragma pack are equivalent, but /Zp …
.NET Context Menu Handler
I've been working on a context menu handler shell extension in C#
lately. There are a few samples that people have produced on the web
(for example, The Code
Project,
pek.com,
and
TheServerSide.net).
I've found a better way of implementing IShellExtInit.Initialize than
in the examples I've seen …