The Old New Thing

What defines an old-style common dialog?

September 17, 2018 Sep 17, 2018 09/17/18

Raymond Chen

Going back into the Before Time.

How do I get the system to run my program in this very special way?

September 12, 2018 Sep 12, 2018 09/12/18

Raymond Chen

You can set up the special way yourself.

How can I conditionally compile based on a preprocessor macro value, while ensuring that the macro is correctly spelled?

September 10, 2018 Sep 10, 2018 09/10/18

Raymond Chen

Another stupid preprocessor trick.

Removing the Terminate­Thread from a DLL that needs to shut down a helper thread at unload

September 7, 2018 Sep 7, 2018 09/7/18

Raymond Chen

Designing it out again.

What does it mean for a window to be Unicode?

September 6, 2018 Sep 6, 2018 09/6/18

Raymond Chen

The expected character set of the current window procedure.