In one of my Win32 DLL projects, whenever I tried to add a resource file, I got the “Automation server can’t create object” object. Similar to other errors, this was not very informative. After searching for this error, I found this the common cause of this problem is that Windows Scripting host is corrupt. You […]
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How to Open Office 2007 files in Older Office versions
As the Office 2007 is growing and getting more popular, I get more and more files from the client and other colleagues in the new Office 2007 format. I still have Office 2003, yes that ancient one, and it was not able to read those files (not correct, read more). I had thought many time […]
IsWindowVisible API Catch
In one of my utilities, I was using the IsWindowVisible function to get the current window state. Though it seems to be working at start, I found that it randomly fails and when debugging the issue, the IsWindowVisible was not returning the correct state i.e. a non-zero value even if the window was not visible. This […]
Changing ASP.net Temporary Files Folder
One of my client was having problems with the small space on the C drive on a server machine which was hosting a ASP.net application. There were few errors in the server error about “No enough space”.Though I would say that in ideal situation it would be best to increase the space on the C: […]