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some reminders.

sh

file handling

Recursively find the most recently changed files in a folder?

find . -type f -exec stat -c "%Y %n" \{\} \; | sort -n | tail -n20

ATL

Dialogs

No XP theming on dialog items?

Deriving from CAxDialogImpl may prevent XP theming. If possible use CDialogImpl instead.

Assertions on accelerator tables?
Accelerators not working?

Known problem with modeless ATL Dialog (i.e. for property pages) - see Q216503 or this fix.

Win32

Foreground windows

Problems getting windows to system-level foreground in win>=2000?

Intented behaviour by MS, only application-level foreground is encouraged.
This seems to be the most reliable workaround:

HWND hCurrWnd = ::GetForegroundWindow();
DWORD id      = ::GetCurrentThreadId();
DWORD currId  = ::GetWindowThreadProcessId(hCurrWnd, 0);
						
::AttachThreadInput(id, currId, TRUE);
::SetForegroundWindow(to);
::AttachThreadInput(id, currId, FALSE);

Getting focus stolen again?

Repeat the above utilizing a timer. Requires to explicitly activate other windows manually though if needed.

.inf files

How to invoke .inf file handlers?

If ShellExecute() is insufficient try e.g. InstallHinfSection.

Outlook

Ribbon

Your IRibbonExtensibility implementation does not get called?

Not implementing the ribbon callback interface may cause that.

Your Ribbon callback interface is not invoked?

Don't forget to set your COM ProgId in the custom ui xml.

OOM

Outlooks duplicate checking for new contacts is not working when a custom addin is active?

Adding custom actions on new and unstored contacts causes duplicate checking to not work (discussion).

Visual Studio 2005

Icons

Icons mysteriously losing color depth?

Only create dummy icons in VS, overwrite them with external ones and never open them in VS again.

R6002

Runtime error R6002, floating-point support not loaded?

Known issue - printf()/scanf()/et al in a module without floating point instructions. Add dummy floating point operation to let the compiler enable floating-point support.