Author Archives: Maris

COM, BSTR or _bstr_t is leaking memory

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Maris

COM, BSTR or _bstr_t is leaking memory. That was my first thought when I saw increasing number in Task Manager under memory colon for the process I am developing. Searching Google for quick answer I found famous Microsoft employee and … Continue reading →

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2011 links no. 3

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Maris

Interview With Sacha Barber in The Code Project. The ABA problem occurs during synchronization, when a location is read twice, has the same value for both reads, and “value is the same” is used to indicate “nothing has changed”. However, … Continue reading →

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.NET Framework 2.0 is not installed on Windows 8 Developer Preview by default

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Maris

.NET Framework 2.0 is not installed on Windows 8 Developer Preview by default. To install it, go to Control Panel – Programs – Turn Windows features on or off – Check ‘Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1′ – OK. Note, that .NET … Continue reading →

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Urih.com statistics – you never know what will be most used feature

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Maris

22 weeks (or 5 months and 5 days) after urih.com launch, here we have an interesting stats. Clearly, the most used feature on the urih.com is SilverBench – online CPU benchmark tool. The opposite – the feature that no one … Continue reading →

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CreateProcessAsUser fails on Windows XP with System error 233

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Maris

Today I fixed one bug that was very hard to reproduce. Many hours were spent to figure out what combination caused it: It happens only on Windows XP (not on Vista, Server 2003, 2008, Win 7); It does not happens … Continue reading →

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Microsoft’s PowerShell hangs when output is captured using Windows API

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Maris

I was debugging a program that uses Windows API (Creating a Child Process with Redirected Input and Output) to capture stdout of Microsoft’s Windows PowerShell. Script passed to PowerShell (-File switch) didn’t execute and PowerShell just hanged until killed by … Continue reading →

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2011 links no. 2

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Maris

Stack Overflow profiler open sourced: Profiling your website like a true Ninja. Smaller is Faster (and Safer Too). Chrome team have just started using a new compression algorithm called Courgette to make Google Chrome updates small. Read more. Ask Amir … Continue reading →

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Urih.com has online resource viewer for executable files

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Maris

One of very interesting online tool we launched in urih.com is online resource viewer for executable files. We call it – Portable executable online viewer. This new (online) tool can be used like any old (offline) tool to view images … Continue reading →

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Strange HTTP GET requests from IP 150.70.x.x and IP 62.24.x.x

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Maris

Recently I started to notice that one of our sites gets strange HTTP GET requests from two IP ranges: 150.70.x.x and IP 62.24.x.x. The short version of this goes as follows: we have web service when users can submit results … Continue reading →

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Windows API PlaySound error / silence

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Maris

Today stumbled at strange behavior of Windows API function PlaySound in combination with SND_FILENAME flag. There are two scenarios: No sound is played, and PlaySound returns success (TRUE) in combination with SND_ASYNC; No sound is played, and PlaySound returns failure … Continue reading →

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