Monthly Archives: May 2008

Fastest IPC method on Windows XP/Vista

Posted on May 28, 2008 by onegazhang

Problem: Find out a fastest method sending 1000 messages of 2MB size from one process to another process. Result table provide by Onega on XP SP2 and Vista. IPC method XP(seconds) Vista(seconds) Remote memory access (ReadProcessMemory) 5.5 5.75 — max … Continue reading →

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boost::interprocess::mapped_region can’t get size of boost::interprocess::windows_shared_memory

Posted on May 20, 2008 by onegazhang

User has to pass size explicitly to ctor of mapped_region, otherwise mapped_region.get_size() return 0. The boost document mentioned it, but I think the mapped_region implementation should not allow user ignore size parameters when mapped_region is working with windows_shared_memory.

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no best mail client

Posted on May 19, 2008 by onegazhang

Windows Live Mail can’t receive message body behind proxy, only subject is received. Thunderbird 2.0.14 can’t receive gmail behind proxy, it failed to access news.microsoft.com too with/without proxy.

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Patch another process

Posted on May 19, 2008 by onegazhang

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/DLL/subhook.aspx Cross Process Subclassing   http://forum.mess.be/index.php?showtopic=11966 Hooking MSN Messenger 7 with VC++, A tutorial on how to hook MSN Messenger http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/w-p/dll/hooking/article.php/c3639/ Hijack Textout Calls From Notepad http://www.codeproject.com/KB/DLL/apihijack.aspx APIHijack – A Library for easy DLL function hooking.   http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/hooksys.aspx API hooking … Continue reading →

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Visual Assist X 10.4.1638.0 causes VC++ 2008 crash

Posted on May 19, 2008 by onegazhang

Just after upgraded to Visual Assist X 10.4.1638.0, my VC++ 2008 keeps crashing at startup. Restoring Visual Assist X 10.4.1626.0 fixed this problem.

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RegisterHotKey in wxWidgets

Posted on May 13, 2008 by onegazhang

Register hotkey via main window, not child window. Some keys do not work. In one case RegisterHotKey(CapturePage::hotkey_id, wxMOD_CONTROL, ‘8’); worked but "F12" does not work. EVT_HOTKEY(CapturePage::hotkey_id, PathUtilDlg::OnHotkey)

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