How to statically link the C++ REST SDK (Casablanca)

You are trying to use the C++ REST SDK (Casablanca) in your Windows application. You have one of the following problems:

• you need Windows XP support
• when your code executes you receive a debug assertion: _pFirstBlock == pHead
• you get unpredictable behaviour or random crashing
• you need to build an application which links against static libraries

You have 30 minutes to solve the problem. Here is how:

The issue is that the C++ REST SDK only supports dynamic linking. The solution is to re-build the SDK with static linking.

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AJAX JavaScript Control (2012 Update)

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IE7 Conditional Comments and XSL

About conditional comments

Conditional comments in Internet Explorer 7 are a way to ensure only IE or non-IE browsers parse certain parts of a page. This is mostly used to include CSS compatibility hacks by way of a <link> element in the page header, but they can in fact wrap any amount of HTML anywhere in the document.

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Drupal RSS feeds in Internet Explorer 7

Anybody who’s used Internet Explorer 7 for reading RSS feeds has probably noticed something annoying: it doesn’t support feeds with DTDs (Document Type Definitions).

Ironically, Outlook supports RSS feeds with DTDs but the functionality was conservatively disabled in IE7 due to concerns about Denial of Service attacks (reference: Internet Explorer Chats (12 October 2006)).

Here’s a quick hack to make RSS feeds genreated by Drupal work in IE7:

1. Open modules/node.module
2. Towards the end of the function node_feed(), comment out the DTD line as shown:

   $output = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>
   ";
   
   // Comment out this line to disable DTD declaration
   // $output .= "<!DOCTYPE rss [<!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC \"-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-lat1.ent\">]>
   // ";
   
   $output .= "<rss version=\"". $channel["version"] . "\" xml:base=\"". $base_url ."\">
   ";
   $output .= format_rss_channel($channel['title'], $channel['link'], $channel['description'], $items, $channel['language']);
   $output .= "</rss>
   ";
   

   In Drupal 4.6.5, this can be found approximately on line 1172 of the code.

Now go to your feed URL again, and you should be able to successfully subscribe in Internet Explorer 7. Hope this helps somebody!

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