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Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Oct 4, 2024

How does the linker decide whether to call WinMain or wWinMain?

If you don't tell it, it will try to figure it out.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Oct 1, 2024

Misunderstanding the “Prevent access to registry editing tools” policy

It prevents access to the tools, but not to the registry itself.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 30, 2024

Pulling a single item from a C++ parameter pack by its index, remarks

Why such a complicated way to pull the type from the pack?

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 27, 2024

The case of the crash when destructing a std::map

Who is corrupting the map?

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 26, 2024

If you’re going to specify the LVS_SORTASCENDING or LVS_SORTDESCENDING style, you had better be telling the truth

Because the listview control uses it to optimize searching.

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