The Old New Thing

From a Windows app, how can I check whether there is an app installed that implements a particular URI scheme?

March 8, 2023 Mar 8, 2023 03/8/23

Raymond Chen

Additional function to let you see what is available.

Microspeak: Baseball card

March 7, 2023 Mar 7, 2023 03/7/23

Raymond Chen

A one-page summary, and this time we mean it.

I can create a read-only page, but why not a write-only page?

March 6, 2023 Mar 6, 2023 03/6/23

Raymond Chen

At the end of the day, it comes down to processor support.

Enumerating Windows clipboard history in PowerShell

March 3, 2023 Mar 3, 2023 03/3/23

Raymond Chen

Doing Windows Runtime things from PowerShell.

Enumerating Windows clipboard history in C++/WinRT and C#

March 2, 2023 Mar 2, 2023 03/2/23

Raymond Chen

Exploring the clipboard history API.

If you want to sort a Windows Runtime collection, you may first want to capture it into something a bit easier to manipulate

March 1, 2023 Mar 1, 2023 03/1/23

Raymond Chen

Moving everything into the same universe.

Once you give away the farm, you can’t take it back: Recovering from a rogue administrator

February 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 02/28/23

Raymond Chen

Who knows what happened to it while you weren't looking.

The unintentionally-expanding scope of the SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX flag

February 27, 2023 Feb 27, 2023 02/27/23

Raymond Chen

Other suppressions caught in its net.

Understanding a mysterious RPC_E_WRONG­THREAD exception when we’re on the right thread

February 24, 2023 Feb 24, 2023 02/24/23

Raymond Chen

Things can go wrong in ways you may not have realized.

Why am I getting an unhandled exception from my C++ function that catches all exceptions?

February 23, 2023 Feb 23, 2023 02/23/23

Raymond Chen

Yes, you caught an exception. But that's not the one that went unhandled.