...alling convention for Win32 system calls. Wikipedia covers the details. It primarily matters when you are calling a function outside of your code (e.g. an OS API) or the OS is calling you (as is the case here with WinMain). If the compiler doesn't know the correct calling convention then you wil...

... Compartmentalize your code Separating your code into multiple, modular units is a very good first step. Round up what works "together" and put them in their own little encased unit. don't worry about the format for now, keep it inline. The structure is a later point. So, suppose you have a page l...

...andard the #include of a file at the beginning inserts the file exactly as it is to the front of the file and does not insert the new line after the #include <foo.h> after the contents of the file. So if you include a file with no newline at the end to the parser it will be viewed as if the la...

...send POST data when I change the window.location , as if a user has submitted a form and it went to a new page. I need to do it this way because I need to pass along a hidden URL, and I can’t simply place it in the URL as a GET for cosmetic reasons. ...

I've been trying to convert SVG images to PNG using C#, without having to write too much code. Can anyone recommend a library or example code for doing this? ...

... Object.seal It prevents adding and/or removing properties from the sealed object; using delete will return false It makes every existing property non-configurable: they cannot be converted from 'data descriptors' to 'accessor descriptors...

...nes. Once CreateThread() has returned, _beginthread/ex() takes care of additional bookkeeping to make the C runtime library usable & consistent in the new thread. In C++ you should almost certainly use _beginthreadex() unless you won't be linking to the C runtime library at all (aka MSVCRT*.dl...

I am using an activity with the dialog theme set, and I want it to be full screen. I tried all sorts of things, even going through the WindowManager to expand the window to full width and height manually, but nothing works. ...

...where that output is in the source code. As we can see in the stack trace, it displays the line number where the exception has occurred. Stack trace is available on the exception object. ...

I want to show an image from an URL with a certain width and height even if it has a different size ratio. So I want to resize (maintaining the ratio) and then cut the image to the size I want. ...