The Old New Thing

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?

How do I pass an array of variable-sized PROPSHEETPAGE structures to PropertySheet?

Raymond Chen November 25, 2021 Nov 25, 2021 11/25/21

It's "just" an array of variable-sized structures.

Appending additional payload to a PROPSHEETPAGE structure

Raymond Chen November 24, 2021 Nov 24, 2021 11/24/21

Taking it along for the ride.

Every business process secretly wants to fail

Raymond Chen November 23, 2021 Nov 23, 2021 11/23/21

At least, that's how it looks from the outside.

A reminder about the correct way of accessing and manipulating the position of icons on the desktop

Raymond Chen November 22, 2021 Nov 22, 2021 11/22/21

There's an interface for that. Please use it.

Why is my C++/CX ref class forbidden from having public methods that are templates or mention, say, std::vector?

Raymond Chen November 19, 2021 Nov 19, 2021 11/19/21

C++/CX overloads the class member access control keywords to control metadata generation.

What does the CompileAsWinRT Visual Studio project option mean?

Raymond Chen November 18, 2021 Nov 18, 2021 11/18/21

And why it's badly-named.

The mental model for StartThreadpoolIo

Raymond Chen November 17, 2021 Nov 17, 2021 11/17/21

It's internally managing a reference count.