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"Has anyone else come across the bug in Visual Studios 2012 where it runs code that isn't there?"
Ok, with just that statement alone, this had to be said:
I assume you're not referring to the MS bug in general where others tend to inject hacks into your system and run code that neither you, nor any other legitimate vendor, wrote. 
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Someone sent me a screenshot of Snipping Tool containing another screenshot. I'm still trying to puzzle out the thought process that led to that.
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How did they even manage it? I can't get it to open twice, and it hides as soon as you start selecting a region  (unless they PrintScreen'd the snipping tool)
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1. CTRL+PRINTSCREEN
2. WIN+R => "pbrush"
3. CTRL+V
4. Crop
5. CTRL+S (alternatively, CTRL+A,C if your mail client lets you paste images into mail)
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Right...I said Print Screen was an option...
I generally see the pattern that a person usually uses one method or the other of getting screen shots, not both. So if they were using the snipping tool, I would assume they somehow used the snipping tool to get the screen shot of the snipping tool.
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Yes. And I think someone was wide awake and wanted to create this littly mystery. AFAIK you can only run one instance of snipping tool. 
One other possibility I can think of is a remote desktop session. You could pull up the tool on the remote computer and then be distracted, say by an email, and then fire up the tool on the local machine. The tool captures remote desktop output just as easily as anything else on screen, so I suppose this way you could end up with a capture of snipping tool showing it's fresh capture.
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BotCar wrote: I'm still trying to puzzle out the thought process that led to that.
I think their brain hadn't been powered on at the time, so no thought process was active.
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ rake in_the_dough
Raking in the dough
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ make lots_of_money
Making lots_of_money
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Can you make a screen shot of that?
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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A screen shot? They are modern! We received photographs of screens taken with a digital camera.
At least they did not use an analog camera and then faxed the photo (after scanning the photo, doing some photoshop, and printing it again).
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: We received photographs of screens taken with a digital camera
Ugh, don't remind me: I've seen those too. I've also seen documents being emailed, printed out, scanned, and then emailed again for no good reason.
Bernhard Hiller wrote: At least they did not use an analog camera and then faxed the photo (after scanning the photo, doing some photoshop, and printing it again).
I dread the day when I see that happening, and I probably will.
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BotCar wrote: I dread the day when I see that happening, and I probably will.
Dunno - the average luser would be hard-pressed to find real film stock any more...I certainly haven't seen any for ten years or so!
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: We received photographs of screens taken with a digital camera
I see I am not the only one. Was for fun: when I installed Windows 8 (the setup screem) I photographed it with my phone and published it on Facebook (obviously not working on PC during setup)
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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Another one here.
Here[^]
**see the first Picture
I am sorry i can't post direct url of that image, my network not allowed me to do that.
Thanks
--RA
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: We received photographs of screens taken with a digital camera.
I've been guilty of that when I need to quickly make some data portable (for my own use only, I would never send that to someone else, if you're going to use email a screenshot would be easier anyways) 
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That's nothing! We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank...
Python references aside, I think I can top that. I've actually seen a *system* where they did something about as clever: One program generated contracts from document templates and some data. The resulting doc was then turned into a TIFF image by automating Word, server-side, and print it using a TIFF printer driver. This image file was then run through OCR logic to extract from the document the data that you originally started with in order to generate the document.
The reason for this wonderful design? Everything else that was to happen whenever a contract was entered into was tightly coupled to a scanning solution from a time when all contracts were received physically by snail-mail and scanned in order to be processed by computer. The scanning solution wasn't actually very old, but the people who owned it had more influence than the people owning documents.
It's amazing what convoluted silliness can survive out there in the wild. And that, in part, is why I can believe Elon Musk when he says it's perfectly possible to build a transportation system that costs 1/10th of a bullet train to set up, is safe, runs on solar, and about twice as fast as an airplane...
Of course, our industry still easily gets the top spot for wasteful idiocy. Taking a few bytes of character data and turning it into a TIFF image of millions of bytes most of which are not even related to the data of interest, then doing OCR to get (most of) the data back again (most of the time) is surely serveral million times more complicated, and several million times more work, than almost any straightforward mechanism.
Maybe there is hope for the future. If we can be this crazy in software, who's to say existing transport systems, or energy useage in general, isn't simply the result of narrow thinking and attempts to improve what already exists? By starting with a clean sheet, it may well be possible to do radically better in a lot of areas.
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I can't view TinyPic links at the office, so it'll have to wait a few hours. In the meantime, here's[^] an example of how it looks.
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I have made a similar picture and uploaded to TinyPic. I have snipped the picture of this thread in IE11 on Windows 8.1 running in VirtualBox with the W8.1 Snipping Tool and snipped again with the Snipping Tool of the W7 host
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I took the lazier option: Snip the thread and Alt+PrintScreen the window that shows up.
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I've received a screen capture of Microsoft Paint displaying a screen capture  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have seen one where that goes 6 levels deep. 
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ rake in_the_dough
Raking in the dough
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ make lots_of_money
Making lots_of_money
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...they should implement new touch method;
Faceplant.
When its too much for a facepalm that you just smash your face at it, it would immediately run a sophisticated application which would find out the reason of the daily horror youre facing and type properly aggravated post with delicate use of profanities as a reply to whichever forum or system it is.
It would evolve humankind greatly forward in quick fashion, and leave all normal display users jealous of those touch screen device users.
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Optional responses:
Siri:  While the sentiment is appreciated, I don't have lips to likewise respond in kind. Besides, your breathe reaks.
Siri: OK! OK!! I'll show you a list of local stores that have breath mints, already!!
Siri:
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This little gem was found today in one class declaration thanks to Visual Studio Watch window. I was browsing one of the class members and i was stunned when i saw the window
int m_cnt;
CPoint m_points[50];
Most of the cases are keeping around 4 - 10 max points.
And i don't even know why exactly 50 ? Why not 100, or 500 or maybe more ... the more the merrier.
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So I guess 50 is rather.... (puts on sunglasses).... pointless.
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ rake in_the_dough
Raking in the dough
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ make lots_of_money
Making lots_of_money
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