If you ever need to run a child process in an elevated state, you can easily set the Verbs property on the ProcessStartInformation to “runas” and the child process will ask for permission when started. You need to watch out the the user denying access however as a Win32Exception will be thrown with its NativeErrorCode [...]

I had to figure out how to make an application run as its native type while loading only the proper dlls for that platform – when the application runs on x64, load only x64 assemblies so that the application will run fully as x64 and the same for x86. The answer is counterintuitive and not [...]

I have gone through so many tools trying to create the right build environment that it is a bit disheartening. I have set up multiple continuous integration systems and it keeps getting easier, but there is still a bit too much friction. I tried to look into using Team Foundation Server and Team Build, but [...]

I found that you can do work such as assigning a variable and executing a method outside of the main expression of an if statement. For example: if(hRes = GetApplicationState(), NT_SUCCESS(hRes)) { // Do something }

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