December 2, 2009 | The Old New Thing

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Fake trend watch: Bridesmaid pre-nuptial agreements

Raymond ChenDecember 2, 2009Dec 2, 200912/2/09

My wanderings through the online world of bridesmaid craziness began with the article Brides taking their bridesmaids for Botox treatments or maybe a boob job. I blame the wedding-industrial complex, which constantly pushes weddings as the bride's "perfect day", "the best day of your life", a "fairy tale come true" where you can be "a ...

A shell extension is a guest in someone else's house; don't go changing the carpet

Raymond ChenDecember 2, 2009Dec 2, 200912/2/09

A customer was running into this problem with a shell extension: I am writing a shell namespace extension. I need to get data from a COM server, which requires impersonation via CoInitializeSecurity with RPC_C_IMP_LEVEL_IMPERSONATE. As I am just writing an extension into explorer.exe, I am not able to call CoInitialize, CoInitializeSecurity ...

The Old New Thing

December 2, 2009 | The Old New Thing

Fake trend watch: Bridesmaid pre-nuptial agreements

A shell extension is a guest in someone else's house; don't go changing the carpet

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