Jul 18, 2017
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Why does the assignment operator in C# evaluate left to right instead of right to left?
Because that's what people expect, for certain values of "people".
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Jul 17, 2017
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Revisions to previous discussion of the implementation of anonymous methods in C#
All instance all the time.
Jul 14, 2017
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Discussion of how to add UTF-16 support to a library that internally uses UTF-8
Convert it, but make sure it can convert back.
Jul 13, 2017
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Customizing the window handle for item enumeration in IShellItem
It's on the site.
Jul 12, 2017
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Why is the maximum number of TLS slots 1088? What a strange number.
It's a little less strange in binary.
Jul 11, 2017
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Microspeak: To stand up
To get something working and available for use.
Jul 10, 2017
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On the circular path from RAII to crazy-town back to RAII: Thoughts on emulating C#’s using in C++
A trip around the block.
Jul 7, 2017
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How can I tell whether two paths reside on the same underlying volume, so I can know whether they can be hard-linked?
Don't try to guess. Just do it.
Jul 6, 2017
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Debugging tip: Use .frame /r to recover nonvolatile registers from the stack frame
Saving you the trouble of reconstructing it manually.
Jul 5, 2017
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How fair are SRW locks, particularly when there are both readers and writers?
Not fair! As with the other Windows synchronization objects.