The Old New Thing

How do I design a class so that methods must be called in a certain order?

March 18, 2019 Mar 18, 2019 03/18/19

Raymond Chen

Consider it a chain of operation objects.

How can we use IsBadWritePtr to fix a buffer overflow, if IsBadWritePtr is itself bad?

March 15, 2019 Mar 15, 2019 03/15/19

Raymond Chen

Don't catch the overflow as it happens. Stop the overflow before it happens.

Resolving security issues sometimes involves its own degree of managing people’s egos

March 14, 2019 Mar 14, 2019 03/14/19

Raymond Chen

It's not purely technical. There's sociology here, too.

Welcome to my new home on the Microsoft Developer Tools and Services blog site

March 13, 2019 Mar 13, 2019 03/13/19

Raymond Chen

Pardon the dust.

Why is there a limit of 15 shell icon overlays?

March 13, 2019 Mar 13, 2019 03/13/19

Raymond Chen

Ran out of bits.

Asking for clear written documentation that “Require trusted path for credential entry” is no longer recommended

March 12, 2019 Mar 12, 2019 03/12/19

Raymond Chen

It was never recommended in the first place.

Precision questioning: The cynical description

March 11, 2019 Mar 11, 2019 03/11/19

Raymond Chen

Just keep digging.

Even if your assembly language code doesn’t call any Windows APIs, you still have to follow the ABI

March 8, 2019 Mar 8, 2019 03/8/19

Raymond Chen

You're not off by yourself; you're part of a society.

What order are pages in a memory-mapped file flushed out to disk?

March 7, 2019 Mar 7, 2019 03/7/19

Raymond Chen

There isn't one.

How do I destruct an object that keeps a reference to itself, because that reference prevents the object from being destructed

March 6, 2019 Mar 6, 2019 03/6/19

Raymond Chen

Keep a reference to the right thing.