September 10, 2012Sep 10, 201209/10/12Chris Hill suggests
discussing the use of structured exception handling as it relates
to the window manager, and specifically the implications for
applications which raise exceptions from a callback.
If you plan on raising
an exception and handling it in a function higher up the stack,
September 7, 2012Sep 7, 201209/7/12A customer reported some strange behavior in the
CopyFile and DeleteFile
functions.
They were able to reduce the problem to a simple test program,
which went like this (pseudocode):
// assume “a” is a large file, say, 1MB.
while (true)
{
// Try twice to copy the file
if (!CopyFile(“a”,
September 6, 2012Sep 6, 201209/6/12A customer was attempting to study a problem that their analysis traced back to the malloc function returning NULL.
Is it a valid conclusion that there is no heap corruption?
While heap corruption may not be the avenue of investigation you’d first pursue,
September 5, 2012Sep 5, 201209/5/12Commenter HiTechHiTouch wants to know whether the “X-Mouse” feature went through the “every request starts at −100 points filter”, and if so, how did it manage to gain 99 points?
The X-Mouse feature is ancient and long predates the “−100 points”
September 4, 2012Sep 4, 201209/4/12A customer created some shortcuts in the CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES folder, expecting them to appear in the Favorites menu for all users. Instead, they appeared in the Favorites menu for no users. Why isn’t CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES working?
The CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES value was added at the same time as the other CSIDL_COMMON_* values,
September 3, 2012Sep 3, 201209/3/12A colleague of mine submitted some paperwork regarding the end-date of his college intern. The automated response combined HR buzzwords in an unfortunate way:
Subject: Intern Termination Report was executed
Just to be sure, my colleague stopped by his intern’s office.
