The Old New Thing

When do Core­Dispatcher.Run­Async and Thread­Pool.Run­Async actions complete?

Raymond ChenMarch 26, 2019Mar 26, 201903/26/19

When the delegate returns, not when it completes.

What does the N in nmake stand for?

Raymond ChenMarch 25, 2019Mar 25, 201903/25/19

It’s old now, but at the time, it was new.

Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2019

Raymond ChenMarch 22, 2019Mar 22, 201903/22/19

For all your retro-computing gawking.

Turning anything into a fire-and-forget coroutine

Raymond ChenMarch 22, 2019Mar 22, 201903/22/19

Turning on the metaprogramming.

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.