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{ Monthly Archives } February 2008

clMenuBar Renders Black on Windows 2000

In Delphi 2007, you may notice some newer color constants towards the end of the list, with names like clMenuBar and clMenuHighlight. Beware! These color constants aren’t supported on Windows 2000, and they render as black. Since the default menu text is also black, this makes the menus rather tough to read! If you use [...]

Why an App Might Disappear Without Notice

I was previously aware of two reasons that an application might simply disappear, without any notification to the user:

A stack overflow (you sometimes get a message box about this, but not always)
Data execution prevention

Raymond Chen adds another item to the list today:

Doing ugly things to the stack

Know of anything else? Add it in comments.
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Versioning DB Metadata Changes and Performance

Here’s yet another guy with more good ideas on how to version database metadata changes. Unfortunately, the ideal method of database metadata versioning remains to be discovered. The ideas discussed in K. Scott Allen’s series are good from a version control point of view, but they will have serious, negative performance implications in [...]

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