Detours OS Instrumentation
We kinda had a direction change at work and the business objects were put on hold. It’s hard to write about high tech stuff when I am not actually doing any high tech stuff. Seems like business is picking up a bit though I don’t think the business objects are back on the table for now. But there has been an item or two of interest pop up from time to that I can discuss.
But right now I want to point out something that I came across that I didn’t know about and want to pass along. I don’t do a lot of Windows API programming but when the need arises it’s nice to have some tools to ease the way along. Detours is billed as “instrumentation” and basically provids a wrapper for Win32 and Win64 API calls and for injecting custom code into existing libraries. Code injection allows code maintenance without having to redo, or even have access to, the existing source code. I haven’t downloaded the trial version yet to look at the API but I could see this product literally saving some poor programmers life.
Coming up next I’ll show you how to replace 30 pages of custom .NET code with less than three pages of T-SQL and discuss the reasons why my way is the better way.