The Old New Thing

September 8, 2005 - The Old New Thing

I won’t be signing books but don’t let that stop you

September 8, 2005 Sep 8, 2005 09/8/05
Raymond Chen
Whereas Eric Carter will be signing his book (co-authored with another Eric) at the PDC. I have no book of my own to sign, but will be happy to sign the Erics' book if you ask me to! You can catch me in the Fundamentals Lounge pretty much the whole time. There have been some changes to my talk since I wrote about it last time. The ...

Why does the function WSASetLastError exist?

September 8, 2005 Sep 8, 2005 09/8/05
Raymond Chen
Why does the function exist when there is already the perfectly good function ? Actually, you know the answer too, if you sit down and think about it. Winsock was originally developed to run on both 16-bit Windows and 32-bit Windows. Notice how the classic Winsock functions are based on window messages for asynchronous notifications. ...