The Old New Thing

February 1, 2013 - The Old New Thing

The annual sporting event involving a football that dare not speak its name and a digression into the sportsmanship of wasting time in nonproductive activity

February 1, 2013 Feb 1, 2013 02/1/13
Raymond Chen
I always wonder about people who are so protective of the name of their event that they don't even allow people to mention it by name. One of the most notorious examples is the organization which runs a major international gathering of athletes which takes place every four years (or every two years if you consider warm-weather sports and cold-...

Psychic debugging: Why your IContextMenu::InvokeCommand doesn’t get called even though you returned success from IContextMenu::QueryContextMenu

February 1, 2013 Feb 1, 2013 02/1/13
Raymond Chen
A customer was having trouble with their IContext­Menu implementation. They observed that their IContext­Menu::Query­Context­Menu method was being called, but when the user selected their menu item, IContext­Menu::Invoke­Command was not being called. Given what you know about shell context menus, you can already ...