The Old New Thing

How do I enumerate remembered connections that are not currently connected?

August 31, 2015 Aug 31, 2015 08/31/15

Raymond Chen

WNetEnumResources again.

Debugging walkthrough: Access violation on nonsense instruction, episode 3

August 28, 2015 Aug 28, 2015 08/28/15

Raymond Chen

Ow, that patch hurts.

The Windows 95 I/O system assumed that if it wrote a byte, then it could read it back

August 27, 2015 Aug 27, 2015 08/27/15

Raymond Chen

Stands to reason.

Rules can exist not because there’s a problem, but in order to prevent future problems

August 26, 2015 Aug 26, 2015 08/26/15

Raymond Chen

Not constraining future optimizations.

Microspeak: DRI, the designated response individual

August 25, 2015 Aug 25, 2015 08/25/15

Raymond Chen

The first line of defense.

Insightful graph: The ship date predictor

August 24, 2015 Aug 24, 2015 08/24/15

Raymond Chen

Factor of two (and a little).

Handy delegate shortcut hides important details: The hidden delegate

August 21, 2015 Aug 21, 2015 08/21/15

Raymond Chen

Sit. Stay.

I saw a pinvoke signature that passed a UInt64 instead of a FILETIME, what’s up with that?

August 20, 2015 Aug 20, 2015 08/20/15

Raymond Chen

Stricter than necessary, but that's okay.

If you are going to call Marshal.GetLastWin32Error, the function whose error you’re retrieving had better be the one called most recently

August 19, 2015 Aug 19, 2015 08/19/15

Raymond Chen

Watch out for functions called behind your back.

If you are going to call Marshal.GetLastWin32Error, the function whose error you’re retrieving had better have SetLastError=true

August 18, 2015 Aug 18, 2015 08/18/15

Raymond Chen

Or it won't get anything.