The Old New Thing

Renaming a file is a multi-step process, only one of which is changing the name of the file

Raymond Chen October 22, 2021 Oct 22, 2021 10/22/21

If you're going to swoop in, make sure to swoop in carefully.

Why isn’t MapDialogRect mapping dialog rectangles?

Raymond Chen October 21, 2021 Oct 21, 2021 10/21/21

Maybe you don't have a dialog.

My code crashed when I asked WIL to convert an exception to an HRESULT, did I throw an improper exception type?

Raymond Chen October 20, 2021 Oct 20, 2021 10/20/21

Digging into the failure more closely.

That time we had a network outage due to unexpected hunter activity

Raymond Chen October 19, 2021 Oct 19, 2021 10/19/21

Watch where you're pointing that thing.

How can I get the screen reader to read out an error message that I displayed inline on a page?

Raymond Chen October 18, 2021 Oct 18, 2021 10/18/21

Make it a live region.

What does the SizeOfImage mean in the MODULEINFO structure?

Raymond Chen October 15, 2021 Oct 15, 2021 10/15/21

It's the size in terms of mapped address space when loaded.

Why does GetModuleInfo fail to produce an entry point for executables?

Raymond Chen October 14, 2021 Oct 14, 2021 10/14/21

Because it's getting the information from the loader, who has no use for such things.

Local variables are different from parameters in C++ coroutines

Raymond Chen October 13, 2021 Oct 13, 2021 10/13/21

You tend to think of them the same, but they destruct differently.

The happy hand: A puzzle about odd names in Azure DevOps

Raymond Chen October 12, 2021 Oct 12, 2021 10/12/21

Who's renaming everything into something cute?

Is there a way that my macro can detect that it’s running in a C++ coroutine?

Raymond Chen October 11, 2021 Oct 11, 2021 10/11/21

You are part of the decision.