The Old New Thing

How do I suppress the error box that appears when a LoadLibrary fails?

February 8, 2024 Feb 8, 2024 02/8/24

Raymond Chen

They don't appear often, but they do appear occasionally.

Why doesn’t my program get fancy drag/drop effects in high contrast mode with CLSID_Drag­Drop­Helper?

February 7, 2024 Feb 7, 2024 02/7/24

Raymond Chen

You have to upgrade your manifest.

On using milliseconds as a measure of network latency

February 6, 2024 Feb 6, 2024 02/6/24

Raymond Chen

There's a limit to how much technology can improve.

How can I close a thread pool and cancel all work that had been queued to it?

February 5, 2024 Feb 5, 2024 02/5/24

Raymond Chen

You can put them in a group.

The case of the invalid parameter error from Measure­Override

February 2, 2024 Feb 2, 2024 02/2/24

Raymond Chen

Chasing it back to its origin.

Using virtual memory placeholders to allocate contiguous address space for multiple purposes

February 1, 2024 Feb 1, 2024 02/1/24

Raymond Chen

Can you hold this for a second?

How can I add an environment variable to a process launched via Shell­Execute­Ex or IContext­Menu?

January 31, 2024 Jan 31, 2024 01/31/24

Raymond Chen

Hooking into the way the Windows shell launches processes.

Smoothing over the differences (and defects) in the various implementations of IMemory­Buffer

January 30, 2024 Jan 30, 2024 01/30/24

Raymond Chen

Stick to the part that nobody messes up.

A comparison of various implementations of the Windows Runtime IMemory­Buffer

January 29, 2024 Jan 29, 2024 01/29/24

Raymond Chen

Every unhappy class is unhappy in its own way.

How can I expose a pre-existing block of memory as a Windows Runtime object without copying the data?

January 26, 2024 Jan 26, 2024 01/26/24

Raymond Chen

Assembling all the pieces.