Aug 31, 2015
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How do I enumerate remembered connections that are not currently connected?
WNetEnumResources again.
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Aug 28, 2015
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Debugging walkthrough: Access violation on nonsense instruction, episode 3
Ow, that patch hurts.
Aug 27, 2015
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The Windows 95 I/O system assumed that if it wrote a byte, then it could read it back
Stands to reason.
Aug 26, 2015
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Rules can exist not because there’s a problem, but in order to prevent future problems
Not constraining future optimizations.
Aug 25, 2015
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Microspeak: DRI, the designated response individual
The first line of defense.
Aug 24, 2015
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Insightful graph: The ship date predictor
Factor of two (and a little).
Aug 21, 2015
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Handy delegate shortcut hides important details: The hidden delegate
Sit. Stay.
Aug 20, 2015
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I saw a pinvoke signature that passed a UInt64 instead of a FILETIME, what’s up with that?
Stricter than necessary, but that's okay.
Aug 19, 2015
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If you are going to call Marshal.GetLastWin32Error, the function whose error you’re retrieving had better be the one called most recently
Watch out for functions called behind your back.
Aug 18, 2015
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If you are going to call Marshal.GetLastWin32Error, the function whose error you’re retrieving had better have SetLastError=true
Or it won't get anything.