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These are bugs with VS2017. Apparently I am very good at finding edge cases. Yesterday's bug was it fails to find a certain function in ComCtrl32.dll. This was annoying because I had written my own function for that functionality and they added one with the same name that did the same thing. My answer was to dig out my old function and adjust its name. Prior to that it wouldn't load resources from compiler DLLs in a static build so that means I have to use dynamic builds and install the compiler's redistributable package. I was not going to require that but since these are captive systems and apps that's not too big a deal. Prior to that, linking with the GetFileVersionInfo API has become completely hosed. This required some real hacks to work around but I had to do something to handle updating the app. I could go on but I will stop there.
I was reporting them but they have ignored the ones I did report except for one they replied to tell me it wasn't a bug. With that one, the behavior in question is by design but happens to be different than in other, related controls. Since then I have stopped wasting my time reporting them.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Yeah, you dont have to edit binary data, clearly!
Look, they only just added the ability to build drivers in VS, so I finally gave up my much used VS 2005 as an editor, though the build was always through a WDK command interface.
And I am damned annoyed that VS doesnt automatically open an unknown format of file in binary. Like it always did!
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Slacker007 wrote: so that I am not like, homeless and crap.
Well, there's always Eclipse. For the homeless. 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I want to open a binary file, so I do a file open, and it brings up the 'which application do you want to open it with', as if I opened it though explorer!!!!
For F&&&S SAKE MICROSOFT, STOP F*****G AROUND!!!!!!!!!
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Well, you can set the default editor, but a binary file? I always thought it absurd that VS didn't have a decent hex editor for binary files.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Hmmm... finally, a VS extension to work upon.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I always thought it absurd that VS didn't have a decent hex editor for binary files
FrHed is really great. MS probably saw it and gave up. They probably forgot to go and buy it.
Get the portable app. You'll thank me later. 
Frhed Portable (hex editor) | PortableApps.com[^]
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Have you posted it in Free Tools Discussion Boards[^]?
Good to have them in a low activity place where search is easy
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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I didn't know about that. Great idea. Thanks
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What color hex editor would you like? And do you want to support nasal fitment?
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Easy now.
You need to save some of that hate for Visual Studio 2019!!! 
Cuz you're going to hate it a whole lot more! 
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Do kangaroos listen to Hip Hop?
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no way!
the old ones are known to suffer hip pop
...and the younger ones prefer music
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Only if they're playin' in the pocket!
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Only when they visit Alice Springs
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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This Does Buck the trend.
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You'll roo that remark. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I hear killer whales dig orcastras.
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No that's for rabbits, kangaroos are just jumpy.
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Two questions in one today:
- Do you prefer tea or coffee?
...and by tea, I mean proper, English-style black tea with milk and optional sugar - none of this weird fruity cr*p they have here in the US, and certainly not the Liptons, bottom of the tea warehouse floor sweepings, "ice tea" that they also, blasphemously, claim is tea.
..and by coffee, I mean any old cr*p with enough cream and sugar in it.
- Does tea really taste better in a proper porcelain or fine china cup?
...I can drink coffee out of any old mug (as long as it's big enough) but I prefer my tea out of porcelain or fine china, if possible.
Note: People who only drink soda and/or water need not reply.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
modified 31-Jan-19 13:25pm.
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Forogar wrote: porcelain if possible
Over here porcelain receptacles have a very different purpose. For drinking we tend to go for china.
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Quite right, of course. Correction applied.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I drink tea at home (different kinds depending on what I decide to buy, black, green, old or new, Chinese or Indian or Japanese...)
Mostly lightly sweetened with no milk (mostly).
If I make chai, I add milk.
I drink it in a large china bowl.
I drink coffee at the office; 1 large cup in the morning made with the espresso machine.
I'd rather be phishing!
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