Why can’t VarDateFromStr parse back a Hungarian date that was generated by VarBstrFromDate? December 19, 2016 Dec 19, 2016 12/19/16 Raymond Chen Parsing is hard. Date parsing doubly so.
My colleague who thought he held the unofficial record for consecutive months of skiing December 16, 2016 Dec 16, 2016 12/16/16 Raymond Chen He stumbled upon an entire community of like-minded skiers.
How bad is it to delay closing a thread handle for a long time after the thread has exited? December 15, 2016 Dec 15, 2016 12/15/16 Raymond Chen Not too bad, as long as you don't make a habit of it.
Dubious security vulnerability: Discovering the salt December 14, 2016 Dec 14, 2016 12/14/16 Raymond Chen The salt is not a secret.
Can a server-side Web application trigger the creation of thumbs.db files? December 13, 2016 Dec 13, 2016 12/13/16 Raymond Chen Probably not.
Why does tapping the Alt key cause my owner-draw static control to repaint? December 12, 2016 Dec 12, 2016 12/12/16 Raymond Chen Time to draw the underlines.
Answers to a customer’s questions about memory and DLLs December 9, 2016 Dec 9, 2016 12/9/16 Raymond Chen Simple questions and hopefully simple answers.
What is this race condition that the OpenMutex documentation is trying to warn me about? December 8, 2016 Dec 8, 2016 12/8/16 Raymond Chen Open it, but it won't come.
Why don’t I get a broken pipe when the child process terminates? December 7, 2016 Dec 7, 2016 12/7/16 Raymond Chen The pipe isn't broken yet.
How can I reset a PC if I forgot the administrator password? December 6, 2016 Dec 6, 2016 12/6/16 Raymond Chen What I reboot three times is true.