The Old New Thing

Torsken har ankommet

March 9, 2018 Mar 9, 2018 03/9/18

Raymond Chen

Cod you believe it?

Why is the daylight saving time cutover time 1 millisecond too soon in some time zones?

March 9, 2018 Mar 9, 2018 03/9/18

Raymond Chen

Another other time zone anomalies.

What’s the difference between CreateTimerQueueTimer and SetThreadpoolTimer?

March 8, 2018 Mar 8, 2018 03/8/18

Raymond Chen

They are both the same thing under the covers.

When MSDN says NULL, is it okay to use nullptr?

March 7, 2018 Mar 7, 2018 03/7/18

Raymond Chen

One of many equivalent formulations.

Microspeak: The triad, the ad-hoc acronyms that result, and the arithmetic problem 3 × 3

March 6, 2018 Mar 6, 2018 03/6/18

Raymond Chen

There are six possible ways of arranging them. Surely one of them must look good.

Inadvertently designing a horrible time and date picker

March 5, 2018 Mar 5, 2018 03/5/18

Raymond Chen

Perhaps inspired by the worst possible volume control.

If I call GetExitCodeThread for a thread that I know for sure has exited, why does it still say STILL_ACTIVE?

March 2, 2018 Mar 2, 2018 03/2/18

Raymond Chen

Because that's not the thread handle you think it is.

How does Task Manager choose the icon to show for a process?

March 1, 2018 Mar 1, 2018 03/1/18

Raymond Chen

It uses your window icon, and if you don't have a window, then it starts hunting.