While everybody is trying to figure out the hidden message in Joe Belfiore's T-shirt,¹ I figure I'd give you an easier puzzle. Here is the pattern of 0's and 1's printed on the T-shirt handed given out at the Windows 8 kick-off meeting. Because you don't have a project until you have a T-shirt. The actual shirt clipped many of the digi...
The desperation Left-to-right marker.
The Advanced Security Settings dialog shows the ACEs in an object's ACL, and one of the pieces of information is a column labeled Inherited from which identifies whether the ACE was inherited, and if so, from where. A customer observed that when they opened the Advanced Security Settings dialog, one of their objects had an ACE that showed Parent Ob...
Overriding WM_NCHITTEST.
Tomorrow is Opening Day of the Seattle boating season. (Which, as I noted some time ago, is purely a social occasion with no legal significance.) One of my colleagues is not much of a boat person, but his wife is. (In fact, she's a commercial fisherman.) They were on board some fancy boat or other as it sat docked. He was up on the top deck&mdash...
Very carefully.
The perceived type tells you what kind of file it is, for a very general sense of the word "kind".
A customer was debugging some code that calls on a class that's already been registered. In this case, it was registered by another DLL in the same process. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, because each DLL passes its own instance handle to so that there are no name collisions. However, in this case, both DLLs are passing the flag, which m...
We saw some time ago that permission to delete a file is granted either File attributes behave in an analogous way. Permission to read a file's attributes is granted either If you want the file's attributes, you could always get it by reading the directory, because one of the pieces of information you get from is the file attributes. There...
Just an order of magnitude. Or three. Or more.
