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There was a spot the difference picture and it was pretty clear what main feature was different as it was against the skyline of a building so stood out quite clearly, I thought it might have been a diversion for some other more tricky tiny change between the two pictures.
I then thought about image diffing, a quick search online and found an online one http://huddle.github.io/Resemble.js/[^]
Works a treat!
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...why don't they "play nice" with the desktop in Win10?
Try this: open Windows explorer, and browse to an image file.
Right click the file, and you get a context menu.
Click on "Send To" and select "Mail recipient"
What happens?
Well, it depends. If you use Outlook, as I do - Office 2010 - then a new mail message appears with teh image set as an attachment, ready to go.
If you use the MS Mail app that comes with Windows 10...you get an error message that no mail program is installed, and explains what to do to fix it. Try and follow the instructions and you find that you have got a mail app installed and registered: "Mail". 
Why is this a problem? Because I'm upgrading a friend's mother's lappie to Win 10, and guess how she used to do it on XP? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I tried to uninstall an app from the new Win10 Settings/System/Apps & Features page.
The app just would not install, no messages, no popups, no nothing. Switch to the real page in the control panel and 1st attempt gone......Spent ages as well looking up why this app wouldn't install or looking for any uninstall executable in its install folder etc. etc. Should have just gone to the control panel in the first place would save me some effort, and its better looking than all this crappy new dull forms.
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I also hate the fact that you cannot uninstall most of the built-in apps by just clicking "Uninstall" (it's grayed out). You have to go and use PowerShell to remove them. And some system apps (like Edge or Cortana) cannot be removed at all unless tempering with the installation image (which might lead to problems since these are so deeply integrated into the OS now). That's why I use my own custom windows image with all the crap I don't need removed (which is all of the apps except for Edge and the Calculator).
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Hi there!
Windows 10 has a "god mode" like its more recent predecessors. Do those settings behave differently after "god mode" is enabled?
Regards.
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I don't think so. AFAIK the new "god mode" is just the result of searching the Settings app using a wildcard ("*") which will simply present you with a list of all the settings that are available in there. But the old god mode is still there, although some of the stuff is less useful and has been removed in favor of the app.
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OriginalGriff wrote: upgrading a friend's mother's lappie to Win 10
Or you are not true to your friend, or your friend has some open issues with his mother...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Quote: If you use the MS Mail app that comes with Windows 10...you get an error message that no mail program is installed
Er ... no ... I get a polite message telling you that no mail program is associated which is an entirely different matter.
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Been there, seen it. Sometimes the image files do not go well with the Metro Image Viewer, and under some conditions even the calculator does not run ("This app is not trusted").
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It was such a nice thing in c++ to make exception safe classes to clean up details. This compared to the "ugly using".
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I used to - a lot. But it's funny: I've not missed it for a long time.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I'm beginner in c# and equivalent (.net stuff). Still I'm on a point that I hate some points on .net at the moment. .net should help programmers in the way one can forget memory leaks.... but in the same way I need to check whether a class is IDisposable... Most probably it is my age, but c++ was much more clear , at least for me  It was simply: I am responsible for resources.
Yep, after some time I think I do not miss det. dtor, simply because it is not available anymore
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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It would be sweet if one could set the syntax-highlighter for IDisposable's
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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 Very sweet. Please send this Suggestion to MS
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Interesting idea for an extension. How would you suggest it to look like?
Now with Roslyn it shouldn't be so hard to write an analyzer that nags you if you forget to call Close/Dispose (or suggest a refactoring to a using-block) on IDisposable types (maybe something like that already exists?)
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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: it shouldn't be so hard
I'm guessing it's harder than you think.
Sure, if the disposable exists in small scope, but what if it is, for example, the return value of a function or contained in a closure?
Determining the scope and lifetime of a variable can be pretty tricky.
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Found something here[^]. It's at least smart enough to ignore disposables returned from methods.
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That looks promising.
So why aren't you writing this extension yet?
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Give him an inch and he'll take a mile. 
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We build commercial ink-jet printing systems. My app is the UI for the control software, written in C#/WPF. Like you, I initially missed deterministic destructors in C#. After a while, I learned to not miss them.
When my app started consuming large amounts of memory when left running for long periods of time (several days), I missed it again. A lot.
With the help of SciTech's .NET Memory Profiler, I managed to get the memory problem under control through a couple of large changes and thousands of small ones. I discovered a couple anti-patterns in my coding style I fixed, but in the end a lot of them amounted to implementing deterministic destructors that ensure dangling references are released.
It was probably the most frustrating and annoying six weeks I've spent since I started with C#, .NET, and WPF - and that includes the learning curve for WPF.
Software Zen: delete this;
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In general, I would agree. I don't like this attitude of having resources hang around until the GC, in its infinite wisdom, decides to collect the garbage.
On the other hand, writing exception-safe classes is a non-trivial task, which may be beyond the abilities/knowledge of many programmers. In my experience, most programmers in C++ ignore the possibilities of exceptions; some attempt to handle them, but poorly; only a vanishingly small group write correct, efficient, exception-safe code.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
modified 6-Sep-15 4:18am.
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Quote: writing exception-safe classes is a non-trivial task
You are very very right. After 30 years programming I still fight sometimes (always? ) on this.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Yes! Dispose is such a stupid hack -- the ability to blow the brains out of an object and still leave a valid shell around to cause problems.. who needs that.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Does anyone know the name of the font used in the Bureau Veritas Logo ?
I'm talking about the white text in the burgandy rectangle which also has an oval emblem overlay LIKE THIS[^]
Better yet, can someone point me to that same logo in a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format ?
I'm trying to place it, by itself, without a white rectangular frame, on a presentation.
The oval overlay, as an SVG file, would be helpful itself.
Ten or Twenty clicks at their website, plus another five searches with Google, find me lots of PNG files with the logo in a white rectangle. No. Wrong. I already have that. I want it in SVG, just the burgandy rectangle and the oval emblem overlaying it.
Thanks if anyone knows.
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if ever I needed something like this I used to go to the sales and or marketing departments - they were the 'keepers of the official logos' for all paraphernalia, ie sending to the printers for official documents - so, if you/they have an official sales/marketing/media dept they'll likely supply you with the logo
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