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Well, in .NET 4 Microsoft added the HandleProcessCorruptedStateExceptions attribute: HandleProcessCorruptedStateExceptionsAttribute Class I want to test this feature. How can I bring my application to a "corrupt state"? Screwing up the garbage collected heap is always a good way: using System; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; class Program { unsafe static void Main(string[] args) { var obj = new byte[1]; var pin = GCHandle.Alloc(obj, GCHandleType.Pinned); byte* p = (byte*)pin.AddrOfPinnedObject(); for (int ix = 0; ix < 256; ++ix) *p-- = 0; GC.Collect(); // kaboom } } Just dereference a

I'm trying to make a stock market simulator (perhaps eventually growing into a predicting AI), but I'm having trouble finding data to use. I'm looking for a (hopefully free) source of historical stock market data. Ideally, it would be a very fine-grained (second or minute interval) data set with price and volume of every symbol on NASDAQ and NYSE (and perhaps others if I get adventurous). Does anyone know of a source for such info? I found this question which indicates Yahoo offers historical data in CSV format, but I've been unable to find out how to get it in a cursory examination of the

How can I simulate a mouse event causing the pointer to move 500 pixels to the left, then click using C++. How would I do something like this? Here's some modified Win32 code I had lying around: #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500 #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> #include <conio.h> #include <string.h> #include <windows.h> #define X 123 #define Y 123 #define SCREEN_WIDTH 1024 #define SCREEN_HEIGHT 800 void MouseSetup(INPUT *buffer) { buffer->type = INPUT_MOUSE; buffer->mi.dx = (0 * (0xFFFF / SCREEN_WIDTH)); buffer->mi.dy = (0 * (0xFFFF / SCREEN_HEIGHT