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Because that's what you do when DVDs show up.

A friend of mine received a flyer for a major department store proudly proclaiming that they were having a One-Day-Only sale. Sale prices were in effect on Saturday and Sunday. Previously on the subject For large values of 1. If this keeps up, I may have to create a subcategory for it.

In the documentation for delay-loading, there's a remark that says that the call to can be avoided if there is binding information. A customer who received the explanation of why you can't delay-load pointed out that paragraph and asked whether this means that you can delay-load if you bind to it. (Getting around to answering this question wa...

Last time, we saw how hinting is used to speed up the resolving of imported functions. Today, we'll look at binding. Recall that the module loader resolves imports by locating the function in the export table of the linked-to DLL and recording the results in the loaded module's table of imported function addresses so that code from the module ...

Binding and hinting are two types of optimizations to improve the load-time performance of a module (executable or DLL). We'll start with hinting, then look at binding, and then look at how it affects delay-loading. The import table for a module contains a list of DLLs and a list of functions from that DLL which the module wishes to link to. The b...

Once again, it's time for Raymond to come up with an absurd, arbitrary criterion for filling out his NCAA bracket. This year, we go to the well-known dispute arbiter Google Fight. The criterion is the number of Google hits for the quoted phrase "%s basketball", divided by the school's seed. (I would have used Bing hits, except Bing's numbers are...

Because it's still talking to the old parent.

Everybody who follows science fiction knows that if you have robots and humans living in the same world, eventually something bad happens to the humans.¹ But we're going to chance it one more time. Every so often, I stumble across a Web site that translates my articles into another language. I occasionally see a Japanese translation, an...

One of the five things every Win32 programmer should know.

The interface is a simpler form of context menu extension which takes care of the annoying parts of so you can focus on your area of expertise, namely, doing the actual thing the user selected, and leave the shell to doing the grunt work of managing the UI part. I've never needed a scratch shell extension before, so I guess it's time to create...