From the DDD book (Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software) by Eric Evans: The public interface of the ANTICORRUPTION LAYER usually appears as a set of SERVICES, although occasionally it can take the form of an ENTITY. and a bit later One way of organizing the design of the ANTICORRUPTION LAYER is … Read more
Clearly this is a major undertaking which will involve lots of work. So my advice would be to treat it like a very long term project. Have a clear goal in mind, which addresses major issues like security, resilience, maintainability and the future of your applications. Once this has been agreed on by the stake … Read more
You’ll want to use a static analysis tool StackOverflow: What open source C++ static analysis tools are available? Wikipedia: List of tools for static code analysis The main gotcha I’ve run into is that you have to be careful that any libraries aren’t used from somewhere that you don’t control/have. If you delete a function … Read more
VB6 Installs just fine on Windows 7 (and Windows 8 / Windows 10) with a few caveats. Here is how to install it: Before proceeding with the installation process below, create a zero-byte file in C:\Windows called MSJAVA.DLL. The setup process will look for this file, and if it doesn’t find it, will force an … Read more
Here’s another solution for swapping endianness. It’s adjusted from Adam Robinsons solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2624377/1254743 It’s even capable of handling nested structs. public static class FooTest { [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, Pack = 1)] public struct Foo2 { public byte b1; public short s; public ushort S; public int i; public uint I; public long l; public ulong L; … Read more
Windows services cannot have GUIs, so you will need to either get rid of the GUI or separate your application into two pieces – a service with no UI, and a “controller” application. If you have the source code, converting the non-GUI code into a service is easy – Visual Studio has a ‘Windows Service’ … Read more
The manpage for bash v3.2.48 says: […] The format for arithmetic expansion is: $((expression)) The old format $[expression] is deprecated and will be removed in upcoming versions of bash. So $[…] is old syntax that should not be used anymore.