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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:27 PM

The preservation of numerical precision

A customer reported a difference in behavior when executing some code in the design time and in a COM dll. You can run this code to see it: (use the server created from http://blogs.msdn.com/calvin_hsia/archive/2004/06/18/159550.aspx ) ? SET ("Decimals")
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Friday, October 20, 2006 1:23 PM

The return value of a method can be intercepted using BindEvent

Here’s a blog post that I wrote a long time ago, but forgot to publish. Marco Cenzato commented on Why doesn't my form close? Here is another case; what do you think: is related? ** Comment the define and rerun the program # Define USE_BINDEVENT Activate
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Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:03 AM

Is this a Vista bug?

A customer reported a crash of a VFP application while running under the new version of Windows: Vista. The customer code attempted to automate the configuration of the web server (See Automating Web Site Administration Using IIS ). Specifically, there
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Monday, October 09, 2006 12:26 PM

Write your own hangman game

Many years ago (1985) I wrote a C program to play Hangman. I had decoded a word processor spelling dictionary for my word source. More recently, I have encoded 2 spelling dictionaries for general purpose use: 1 with 171201 words, the other with 53869.
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