Making it happen
Archive for February, 2006
Corrupted VS2005 splash
Feb 1st
At some point after installing some Visual Studio 2005 components I realised the splash screen was corrupted – there’s a screenshot below. While looking for it in DLL resources without success, I found a dat file in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0 called vs000223.dat – it’s a bmp actually. Just replace it with the correct one for the initial look.
Doubles
Feb 1st
After hunting decimals for the whole day (I mean looking where the fractional parts get truncated and influence badly the final result), I so wish that MFC (and, actually, everything) had coordinates and CRects with double instead of int … and would get converted to integer in the final phase, the rendering.
