The Old New Thing

When are global objects constructed and destructed by Visual C++?, redux

September 30, 2016 Sep 30, 2016 09/30/16

Raymond Chen

Adding another column to the table.

The lackey catastrophe

September 29, 2016 Sep 29, 2016 09/29/16

Raymond Chen

You know it will be done, but you don't know when.

When can you free the memory backing the HSTRING you created with WindowsCreateStringReference?

September 28, 2016 Sep 28, 2016 09/28/16

Raymond Chen

Nothing you haven't had to deal with already.

What’s up with Windows developer tools being written in perl?

September 27, 2016 Sep 27, 2016 09/27/16

Raymond Chen

It's socially acceptable.

It says that I should use USB usage page 1 and usage 6 to get raw keyboard data, but what if I have a PS/2 keyboard?

September 26, 2016 Sep 26, 2016 09/26/16

Raymond Chen

The numbers came from the USB HID specification, but that doesn't require the keyboard to be USB.

When you break into a user-mode application in the kernel debugger, how do you connect a user-mode debugger?

September 23, 2016 Sep 23, 2016 09/23/16

Raymond Chen

Make the program its own bridge.

Dither me this

September 22, 2016 Sep 22, 2016 09/22/16

Raymond Chen

Where did the error go?

The case of the system() call that returned before finishing

September 21, 2016 Sep 21, 2016 09/21/16

Raymond Chen

Study the output more carefully.

The social skills of a thermonuclear device: Ruining a conversation

September 20, 2016 Sep 20, 2016 09/20/16

Raymond Chen

The party's over.

It’s an unfortunate choice of data type for the file system redirection cookie

September 19, 2016 Sep 19, 2016 09/19/16

Raymond Chen

The untyped pointer strikes again.