Why are there two kinds of Universal Windows apps, one for Windows 8 and another for Windows 10? February 15, 2018 Feb 15, 2018 02/15/18 Raymond Chen Universality is not universal.
What’s the difference between the zero width non-joiner and the zero width space? February 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018 02/14/18 Raymond Chen Are you separating two words?
When Windows copies a file, does it ever copy bytes that are in the slack space? February 13, 2018 Feb 13, 2018 02/13/18 Raymond Chen Keeping tabs on the slackers.
There are no bugs in the I/O manager February 12, 2018 Feb 12, 2018 02/12/18 Raymond Chen True each time it is uttered.
Optimizing BitBlt by generating code on the fly February 9, 2018 Feb 9, 2018 02/9/18 Raymond Chen Artisanal bit block transfers made to order.
What do the output values from CoGetApartmentType mean? February 8, 2018 Feb 8, 2018 02/8/18 Raymond Chen Four types of threads, possibly in the neutral apartment temporarily.
Why does misinterpreting UTF16-LE Unicode text as ANSI tend to show up as just one character? February 7, 2018 Feb 7, 2018 02/7/18 Raymond Chen Because you're probably working in the ASCII subset.
// If this happens, I am going to quit and become a barista February 5, 2018 Feb 5, 2018 02/5/18 Raymond Chen Maybe you should check if Starbucks is hiring.
The case of the SRWLock violation in a thread pool work item February 2, 2018 Feb 2, 2018 02/2/18 Raymond Chen Application verifier tells the story.