Why not use weak linking to solve the retargetable library problem? March 17, 2016 Mar 17, 2016 03/17/16 Raymond Chen A discussion.
Randomly-generated passwords still have to be legal strings March 16, 2016 Mar 16, 2016 03/16/16 Raymond Chen Well-formed strings according to the encoding.
Why doesn’t this registry hack for disabling autorun work? March 15, 2016 Mar 15, 2016 03/15/16 Raymond Chen Because it never claimed to.
Adventures in UI Automation: Scraping the Driver Files dialog March 14, 2016 Mar 14, 2016 03/14/16 Raymond Chen Drivery goodness.
On week numbering in the United States March 11, 2016 Mar 11, 2016 03/11/16 Raymond Chen We don't really do it.
Could there be any problems with calling GetModuleFileNameEx on your own process? March 10, 2016 Mar 10, 2016 03/10/16 Raymond Chen Yes.
String comparisons against program output is not usually the best solution March 9, 2016 Mar 9, 2016 03/9/16 Raymond Chen Look for programmatic interfaces.
If what you’re doing is undocumented, it’s not guaranteed to keep working, and your promise not to complain doesn’t really hold water March 8, 2016 Mar 8, 2016 03/8/16 Raymond Chen Because that's what undocumented implies.
On word breaking in Chinese and Japanese March 7, 2016 Mar 7, 2016 03/7/16 Raymond Chen Different rules.
Why not auto convert week-based time zone information to date-based? March 4, 2016 Mar 4, 2016 03/4/16 Raymond Chen What an adorable snowflake.