The Old New Thing

What happens when a hot air balloon lands in your yard?

Raymond Chen December 7, 2021 Dec 7, 2021 12/7/21

Break out the bubbly.

It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Producing malicious data in a kernel driver

Raymond Chen December 7, 2021 Dec 7, 2021 12/7/21

Sure, you can fool other people, but you can do far more than that already.

Compiler error message metaprogramming: Helping to find the conflicting macro definition

Raymond Chen December 6, 2021 Dec 6, 2021 12/6/21

Shaping the code so a required diagnostic will be useful.

How can I produce a C-style array from a Windows Runtime asynchronous operation?

Raymond Chen December 3, 2021 Dec 3, 2021 12/3/21

No good solutions, but some workarounds.

How do I receive ownership of a C-style array in a Windows Runtime component?

Raymond Chen December 2, 2021 Dec 2, 2021 12/2/21

The implementation side of the role reversal.

How can I transfer ownership of a C-style array to a Windows Runtime component?

Raymond Chen December 1, 2021 Dec 1, 2021 12/1/21

Survey the options and realize that the only choice is to go backward.

How can my C++/WinRT component pass a std::vector back to the caller?

Raymond Chen November 30, 2021 Nov 30, 2021 11/30/21

Implementing the ReceiveArray pattern.

How did Windows 3.1’s virtual machine manager get the information to show in the text-mode Alt+Tab switcher?

Raymond Chen November 29, 2021 Nov 29, 2021 11/29/21

Getting by with a little help from a friend.

The two products may be identical, but they are not the same

Raymond Chen November 26, 2021 Nov 26, 2021 11/26/21

No price-matching for you.

I called AdjustTokenPrivileges, but I was still told that a necessary privilege was not held, redux

Raymond Chen November 26, 2021 Nov 26, 2021 11/26/21

Did any privilege adjustment occur at all?