UnMapViewOfFile Failing
At work we were focusing on moving our build stations to the cloud because COVID-19 has made it so that everything is easier if it’s able to be done remotely. In working on this task I found our nightly regression tests suddenly failing. One test was producing vastly different output and one test was outright […]
I’m slowly becoming one of “them”
I’ve been using computers since I was in elementary school. The first time I actually remember using a keyboard and monitor I was about 7 or 8 years old. From there, my Mom got a computer to make her home accounting business easier to run. Our first home computer was an IBM PS2 that had […]
IThumbnailProvider Re-Visited
Note for the source downloads, see the bottom of the post. About 3 months ago I posted about 64-bit versions of Thumbnailers written for Vista and Windows 7 using the new “IThumbnailProvider” class. Writing new functionality in managed code ( C# is what I used ), just made it very easy to get code […]
ThumbnailProvider and 64bit Operating Systems
I’ve been working on Explorer extensions for the software company I develop for, Cimatron/Gibbs. I first worked up a Preview Pane extension, and while the general code was easy enough to get working, extracting data from our files wasn’t as trivial as I would have liked due to the way that we pack the preview […]
iCleanUp – Trial Version
While I finish up how I’m going to actually secure my software, I figured I could release a version that showed what it is capable of doing, without all the functionality ( it won’t actually clean up the files, but it will tell you what they are if you want to do it all by […]