The Old New Thing

April 29, 2013 - The Old New Thing

Dentistry in the Brazil-like future

April 29, 2013 Apr 29, 2013 04/29/13
Raymond Chen
I dreamed that I was living in a nursing home in some Brazil-like dystopic future. In this future, people had become so horribly disfigured that they wore flesh-colored suits under their clothes all the time just so they would look good "naked". This vanity extended only to people under the age of around 40. The old people in the home were ...

Getting the display name for a shell property

April 29, 2013 Apr 29, 2013 04/29/13
Raymond Chen
Today's Little Program takes the symbolic name for a shell property and returns a string suitable for display to the end-user, translated into the user's specified display language. #include <windows.h> #include <ole2.h> #include <propsys.h> #include <propkey.h> #include <atlbase.h> #include <atlalloc.h>...