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I recently wrote a simple utility app in C# that really wasn’t very taxing. It’s been working fine and has been really useful for me. However, I went to use it today and it started, appeared in the task bar, but didn’t display a Window! As far as I could make out, it had simply hung for no apparent reason. There were no errors, no exceptions, no excessive CPU usage, no disk thrashing - just no Form!
We all love to hate Microsoft but I think it does us good sometimes to find new reasons why! 
I wanted to build a fairly simple ActiveX control recently and decided to brush up my VC++ skills (since I’ve been using almost exclusively C#.Net for the past 2 years). So I dutifully fired up Visual Studio 2005 (with all the latest Service Packs) and went through the wizard to generate an MFC ActiveX control. Before I get too many comments - I am fully aware of how optimistic that was…!
Now, whenever I create a new project in this way, my first step is always to compile it, since all projects built with the wizard compile, don’t they? (There goes that optimism again!) Well, no! It doesn’t compile! There are errors left, right and centre and after spending about an hour fixing some of them, I finally got tired and decided that the whole ActiveX project was to SAVE me less time than this on future projects!!!
Still, there’s always C#…!
