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Playsound is failing on Vista! What's wrong?

Recently BillP , the author of the antispyware application WinPatrol asked on the MSDN forums about a problem he was having with his application . His app called PlaySound(MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_WOOF), hInst, SND_RESOURCE | SND_SYNC | SND_NOWAIT) but it Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:01 PM by LarryOsterman | 23 Comments

Blocking your UI thread with PlaySound

For better or worse, the Windows UI model ties a window to a particular thread, that has led to a programming paradigm where work is divided between "UI threads" and "I/O threads". In order to keep your application responsive, it's critically important Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:45 AM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments

Software Contracts, Part 3 - Sometimes implicit contracts are subtle

I was planning on discussing this later on in the series, but "Dave" asked a question that really should be answered in a complete post (I did say I was doing this ad-hoc, it shows). Let's go back to the PlaySound API, and let's ask two different questions Read More...
Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 9:16 AM by LarryOsterman | 32 Comments

The dreaded "beeping death"

Anyone who's been at Microsoft for long enough (long enough to use DOS on a day-to-day basis) remembers the deadly "beeping death". The "beeping death" was an artifact of the MS-NET product that we deployed for networking here at Microsoft, and I was Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:57 AM by LarryOsterman | 11 Comments
 
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