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    July 2010 | The Old New Thing

    Decoding the parameters of a thrown C++ exception (0xE06D7363)
    Decoding the parameters of a thrown C++ exception (0xE06D7363)
    Raymond Chen Raymond Chen July 30, 2010 Jul 30, 2010 07/30/10
    Start with the 0xE06D7363...

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    Holy cow, those TechReady attendees really love their tchotchkes
    Holy cow, those TechReady attendees really love their tchotchkes
    Raymond Chen Raymond Chen July 29, 2010 Jul 29, 2010 07/29/10
    I was at the Ask the Experts event last night at TechReady11, and if I didn't know better, I would have thought the purpose of Ask the Experts was for attendees to wander the room collecting the coolest swag they could get their hands on as quickly as possible. My table was equipped with about two dozen Windows 7 frisbees, and the moment ...

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    Why is my icon being drawn at the wrong size when I call DrawIcon?
    Why is my icon being drawn at the wrong size when I call DrawIcon?
    Raymond Chen Raymond Chen July 29, 2010 Jul 29, 2010 07/29/10
    Some time ago I had a problem with icon drawing. When I tried to draw an icon with Draw­Icon it ended up being drawn at the wrong size. A call to Get­Icon­Info confirmed that the icon was 48×48, but it drew at 32×32. The answer is documented in a backwards sort of way in the Draw­Icon­Ex function, which says ...

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    The frustration of people who have already decided on the solution and won't let you derail them with your annoying questions
    The frustration of people who have already decided on the solution and won't let you derail them with your annoying questions
    Raymond Chen Raymond Chen July 28, 2010 Jul 28, 2010 07/28/10
    I illustrate this frustration with an actual mail thread (suitably redacted) which I was an observer to. It's a long thread because that's part of the frustration. From: Adam I am looking for some expert advice here on finding a better solution to our performance problem with Product P. Here are the details. [Here follow the details...

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    Hardware backward compatibility: The finicky floppy drive
    Hardware backward compatibility: The finicky floppy drive
    Raymond Chen Raymond Chen July 27, 2010 Jul 27, 2010 07/27/10
    I think the behavior is more petulant than finicky, but finicky is alliterative. Back in the days of Windows 95, I was talking with the person responsible for, among other things, the floppy disk driver, and I learned about a particular driver hack that was needed to work around a flaw in a very common motherboard chipset. Apparently ...

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    Why didn't Windows XP auto-elevate programs beyond those named setup.exe?
    Why didn't Windows XP auto-elevate programs beyond those named setup.exe?
    Raymond Chen Raymond Chen July 26, 2010 Jul 26, 2010 07/26/10
    Commenter J-F has a friend who wonders why Windows XP didn't auto-elevate all installers but rather only the ones named setup.exe. (Perhaps that friend's name is Josh, who repeated the question twelve days later.) Remember what the starting point was. In Windows 2000, nothing was auto-elevated. Before adding a feature, you have ...

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    MSDN content is also available as a Web service
    MSDN content is also available as a Web service
    Raymond Chen Raymond Chen July 23, 2010 Jul 23, 2010 07/23/10
    Unless you've been living under a rock, by now you know about MSDN's low bandwidth view (aka ScriptFree) and lightweight view. But there are other views too, like PDA view (for when you want to look up MSDN documentation on your phone?), Robot view, printer-friendly view, unstyled HTML view... (See that first link above for more details.) ...

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    If I'm not supposed to call IsBadXxxPtr, how can I check if a pointer is bad?
    If I'm not supposed to call IsBadXxxPtr, how can I check if a pointer is bad?
    Raymond Chen Raymond Chen July 23, 2010 Jul 23, 2010 07/23/10
    Some time ago, I opined that Is­Bad­Xxx­Ptr should really be called Crash­Program­Randomly and you really should just let the program crash if somebody passes you a bad pointer. It is common to put pointer validation code at the start of functions for debugging purposes (as long as you don't make logic decisions based on ...

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    I will be speaking at TechReady11
    I will be speaking at TechReady11
    Raymond Chen Raymond Chen July 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010 07/22/10
    This year, it's advanced debugging.

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    Things I've written that have amused other people, Episode 7
    Things I've written that have amused other people, Episode 7
    Raymond Chen Raymond Chen July 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010 07/22/10
    A customer asked for advice on how to accomplish something, the details of which are not important, except to say that what they were trying to do was far more complicated than the twenty-word summary would suggest. And I wasn't convinced that it was a good idea, sort of like asking for advice on how to catch a baseball in your teeth or pick ...

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