HAHAHA! Sorry had to get that out of the way... So today at work, one of the guys I work with showed me the dumbest error I have ever seen. It has been an issue that we have been dealing with for a few weeks ever since we all go dual monitors. It turns out that if you want to change the build configuration in Visual Studios .net 2003 and your second monitor is to the left or above the primary monitor, the drop down windows in the configuration build manager do not work. Hmmm... very strange right? It seems it has a problem drawing the drop down boxes in negative virtual space, and of course, instead of windows adjusting your origin based on your most left monitor, they instead use a negative coordinate system for monitors in this configuration. If you move the dialog back on the primary monitor or to a monitor in the right/bottom relative position of the primary monitor, no issues.
Another issue I noticed today, in wincore.cpp, Microsoft has so lovingly used the Goto statement in about 7 places. This is so strange as the goto has really become a thing of the past - especially in C++... Someone should do a count to see how many goto statements are in MFC alone, that would be an interesting figure to ponder. Gives me more reason to love the fact that I do not work at Microsoft.
Leave it to Microsoft to lead the way in reverse innovations. Keep up the good work Mr. Gates!
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