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Feb 17, 2025
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API design note: Beware of adding an “Other” enum value

What are you going to do when you add a new kind?

Feb 14, 2025
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Investigating an argument-dependent lookup issue and working around it

Picking apart the language specification.

Feb 13, 2025
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A sample implementation of the weak reference pattern for COM callbacks

A forwarder through a weak reference.

Feb 12, 2025
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Async-Async revisited: What about cancellation?

Even the cancellation is async.

Feb 11, 2025
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Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS can do graphics?

Oh look what you just made there.

Feb 10, 2025
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How does Explorer find the “first” icon in a file

It enumerates them and takes the first one, so this is really a question about enumeration.

Feb 7, 2025
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Using alternate locales to get more interesting case mapping than the C

Looking for something better.

Feb 6, 2025
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The default C locale is not a very interesting one

It barely understands anything.

Feb 5, 2025
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On exactly when XAML bindings are evaluated if an element is not yet loaded

It depends on which abstraction you prefer.