Mar 18, 2019
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How do I design a class so that methods must be called in a certain order?
Consider it a chain of operation objects.
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Mar 15, 2019
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How can we use IsBadWritePtr to fix a buffer overflow, if IsBadWritePtr is itself bad?
Don't catch the overflow as it happens. Stop the overflow before it happens.
Mar 14, 2019
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Resolving security issues sometimes involves its own degree of managing people’s egos
It's not purely technical. There's sociology here, too.
Mar 13, 2019
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Welcome to my new home on the Microsoft Developer Tools and Services blog site
Pardon the dust.
Mar 13, 2019
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Why is there a limit of 15 shell icon overlays?
Ran out of bits.
Mar 12, 2019
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Asking for clear written documentation that “Require trusted path for credential entry” is no longer recommended
It was never recommended in the first place.
Mar 11, 2019
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Precision questioning: The cynical description
Just keep digging.
Mar 8, 2019
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Even if your assembly language code doesn’t call any Windows APIs, you still have to follow the ABI
You're not off by yourself; you're part of a society.
Mar 7, 2019
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What order are pages in a memory-mapped file flushed out to disk?
There isn't one.
Mar 6, 2019
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How do I destruct an object that keeps a reference to itself, because that reference prevents the object from being destructed
Keep a reference to the right thing.