The Old New Thing

Why does the assignment operator in C# evaluate left to right instead of right to left?

July 18, 2017 Jul 18, 2017 07/18/17

Raymond Chen

Because that's what people expect, for certain values of "people".

Revisions to previous discussion of the implementation of anonymous methods in C#

July 17, 2017 Jul 17, 2017 07/17/17

Raymond Chen

All instance all the time.

Discussion of how to add UTF-16 support to a library that internally uses UTF-8

July 14, 2017 Jul 14, 2017 07/14/17

Raymond Chen

Convert it, but make sure it can convert back.

Customizing the window handle for item enumeration in IShellItem

July 13, 2017 Jul 13, 2017 07/13/17

Raymond Chen

It's on the site.

Why is the maximum number of TLS slots 1088? What a strange number.

July 12, 2017 Jul 12, 2017 07/12/17

Raymond Chen

It's a little less strange in binary.

On the circular path from RAII to crazy-town back to RAII: Thoughts on emulating C#’s using in C++

July 10, 2017 Jul 10, 2017 07/10/17

Raymond Chen

A trip around the block.

How can I tell whether two paths reside on the same underlying volume, so I can know whether they can be hard-linked?

July 7, 2017 Jul 7, 2017 07/7/17

Raymond Chen

Don't try to guess. Just do it.

Debugging tip: Use .frame /r to recover nonvolatile registers from the stack frame

July 6, 2017 Jul 6, 2017 07/6/17

Raymond Chen

Saving you the trouble of reconstructing it manually.

How fair are SRW locks, particularly when there are both readers and writers?

July 5, 2017 Jul 5, 2017 07/5/17

Raymond Chen

Not fair! As with the other Windows synchronization objects.