The Old New Thing

Expressing fire-and-forget coroutines more explicitly, -or- How to turn any coroutine into fire-and-forget

Raymond ChenMarch 21, 2019Mar 21, 201903/21/19

Putting it at the call site instead of in the function itself.

winrt::fire_and_forget was too forgetful

Raymond ChenMarch 20, 2019Mar 20, 201903/20/19

Usually, you don’t care when it finishes, as long as it does.

Why does my app’s uninstaller disappear from the Start menu?

Raymond ChenMarch 19, 2019Mar 19, 201903/19/19

Keeping things tidy.

How do I design a class so that methods must be called in a certain order?

Raymond ChenMarch 18, 2019Mar 18, 201903/18/19

Consider it a chain of operation objects.

How can we use IsBadWritePtr to fix a buffer overflow, if IsBadWritePtr is itself bad?

Raymond ChenMarch 15, 2019Mar 15, 201903/15/19

Don’t catch the overflow as it happens. Stop the overflow before it happens.

Resolving security issues sometimes involves its own degree of managing people’s egos

Raymond ChenMarch 14, 2019Mar 14, 201903/14/19

It’s not purely technical. There’s sociology here, too.

Welcome to my new home on the Microsoft Developer Tools and Services blog site

Raymond ChenMarch 13, 2019Mar 13, 201903/13/19

Pardon the dust.

Why is there a limit of 15 shell icon overlays?

Raymond ChenMarch 13, 2019Mar 13, 201903/13/19

Ran out of bits.

Asking for clear written documentation that Require trusted path for credential entry is no longer recommended

Raymond ChenMarch 12, 2019Mar 12, 201903/12/19

It was never recommended in the first place.

Precision questioning: The cynical description

Raymond ChenMarch 11, 2019Mar 11, 201903/11/19

Just keep digging.