The Old New Thing

Async-Async: Reducing the chattiness of cross-thread asynchronous operations

April 30, 2019 Apr 30, 2019 04/30/19

Raymond Chen

Setting up fakes on both sides.

Spotting problems with destructors for C++ temporaries

April 29, 2019 Apr 29, 2019 04/29/19

Raymond Chen

It's sometimes later than you want.

How many ways are there to sort GUIDs? How much time do you have?

April 26, 2019 Apr 26, 2019 04/26/19

Raymond Chen

Look at all the pretty snowflakes.

How can I launch an unelevated process from my elevated process, redux

April 25, 2019 Apr 25, 2019 04/25/19

Raymond Chen

You can ask to execute it as if had been executed by somebody else.

The administrative assistant who lasted only one day: A legendary prank from days of yore

April 24, 2019 Apr 24, 2019 04/24/19

Raymond Chen

When you need to execute a prank effectively, hire a professional.

Why was Texas Hold ‘Em Poker a Windows Ultimate Extra instead of a built-in game?

April 23, 2019 Apr 23, 2019 04/23/19

Raymond Chen

Cultural sensitivity.

A little program to look for files with inconsistent line endings

April 22, 2019 Apr 22, 2019 04/22/19

Raymond Chen

Something I wrote.

On resolving the type vs member conflict in C++: The Color Color problem

April 19, 2019 Apr 19, 2019 04/19/19

Raymond Chen

You have to nudge the compiler in the right direction.

How arbitrary is the ArbitraryUserPointer in the TEB?

April 18, 2019 Apr 18, 2019 04/18/19

Raymond Chen

Another identifier defined with kernel-colored glasses.

What does this strange value for “Percent CPU” mean in Performance Monitor?

April 17, 2019 Apr 17, 2019 04/17/19

Raymond Chen

It's the percent CPU, but you have to undo the various adjustments you requested.