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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 10, 2024

Does the Resource Compiler have a separate preprocessor or doesn’t it?

It did, but now it doesn't.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 9, 2024

GitHub trick to find the commit that deleted a file

Ask for the history of the file.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 6, 2024

The case of the image that came out horribly slanted: Negative stride

It's all topsy-turvy.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 5, 2024

The case of the image that came out horribly slanted: Taking the pitch into account

Getting the pieces to line up.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 4, 2024

The case of the image that came out horribly slanted: Diagnosis

Imperfect pitch.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 3, 2024

Why did Windows 95 use blue screen error messages instead of hard error messages?

You may not able to get there from here.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 2, 2024

The Co­Initialize­Security function demands an absolute security descriptor

Even though you usually have a self-relative one in hand.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Aug 30, 2024

In the Windows kernel, what is a LUID, and what makes it loo-ey?

It's a locally-unique ID, for a specific definition of "local".

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Aug 29, 2024

How is the Windows.Foundation.Uri.Domain property different from Host?

It's an educated guess.

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