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This has never occurred to me before, I have been tweaking win32 API for awhile, but I really never paid much attention with the dimensions as saved in resource files for dialog boxes. Interestingly, the units stored in rc file are not really in pixel but rather in dialog unit. :( My understanding is that this will make the dialog independent of the font size. If user/developer changes the font size, the dialog box will adjust accordingly. Seems like a neat idea but I was dumbfounded at first sight. It makes my life harder though as I am trying to cross-reference runtime dialog boxes against design time. I was planning to cross ref them using the dimensions but it turns out to be not a good option. The quest is on........... Related links: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380902(VS.85).aspx ~rs~

Detecting and Isolating Memory Leaks ( link ) Debugging Tutorial Debug Tutorial Part 3: The Heap ( link )

Webseter: The place on the Internet to Learn Assembly( link ) Resources: MASM 6.1 download ( link )

The following are my frequently used keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio. Ctrl+} - Match braces back and forth Ctrl+- - Go back to the last location Ctrl+l - Delete line Ctrl+g - Go to line number Shift+Alt+Enter - Maximize Code Editor

I am getting the following crash in VC++2008: Linking... Embedding manifest... Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Resource Compiler Version 6.0.5724.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved. LINK : fatal error LNK1000: Internal error during IncrBuildImage It turns out that this a bug of a VC++ 2008 linker, see hotfix 948127 from Microsoft. ~TS

jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor. It is not my favorite but it is interesting. Key configurations I do in JEdit: - Remove the .(dot) in the text area, do Utilities | Global Options... | Text Area and unset End of line markers.

IE7 Action Key Alt-D Goto to URL bar Ctrl-E Goto to Search box