The Old New Thing

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.

Even if your assembly language code doesn’t call any Windows APIs, you still have to follow the ABI

Raymond ChenMarch 8, 2019Mar 8, 201903/8/19

You’re not off by yourself; you’re part of a society.

What order are pages in a memory-mapped file flushed out to disk?

Raymond ChenMarch 7, 2019Mar 7, 201903/7/19

There isn’t one.

How do I destruct an object that keeps a reference to itself, because that reference prevents the object from being destructed

Raymond ChenMarch 6, 2019Mar 6, 201903/6/19

Keep a reference to the right thing.