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mt.exe Access is Denied

This is just a quick note so that web searches for a similar problem find a solution. Seemingly out of the blue, I started getting random errors of the form below when compiling C++ applications in...

cpp debugging windows build-tools
October 27, 2010
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Action Events in .NET

The Async Pattern used in .NET 1.x and 2.0 code always annoyed me because of the excessive coding noise it introduced. The new support in .NET 3.x in relation to lamdas (convenient delegate or...

dotnet csharp delegates programming design-patterns
December 4, 2008
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Torq FxCop Setup

FxCop is a static analysis tool from Microsoft that checks software source code for conformance to the Microsoft .NET framework’s design guidelines.

code-quality dotnet visual-studio development-tools
December 4, 2008
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General versus Special Case Tension

One of the blogs I subscribe to is by Reginald Braithwaite. He was recently interviewed on InfoQ and part of the conversation related to the development process of generalizing in programming: ……so...

software-engineering programming design-patterns professional-development
September 19, 2008
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dynamic_cast and accessible base classes

We recently upgraded to using Visual Studio 2008 for compiling our MacroView source code on Windows. Previously we had used Visual Studio 2003 so there was a jump over the 2005 compiler version.

cpp visual-studio object-oriented macroview
June 5, 2008
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