Apr 16, 2019 10 0 Microspeak: Occupant compression Raymond Chen Ouch, it hurts when you squeeze me there.
Apr 15, 2019 4 0 Today is tax day, but it’s also division meeting day, so let’s get you some forms to fill out Raymond Chen Render unto Caesar, but ask for a little more time.
Apr 12, 2019 8 1 How can a desktop app use a Windows Runtime object that infers UI context from its thread? The IInitializeWithWindow pattern Raymond Chen Explicitly associating with a window handle.
Apr 11, 2019 4 0 How can I determine the reason why my window is closing? Raymond Chen Listen for signals.
Apr 10, 2019 7 0 Even if you open a file with GUID, you can still get its name, or at least one of its names Raymond Chen GetFinalPathByHandle works even for files opened by ID.
Apr 9, 2019 8 0 When I select multiple files in the File Open dialog, why does the last item come first? Raymond Chen Because it's the focus.
Apr 8, 2019 13 0 Optimizing your cafeteria meal card stockpile Raymond Chen What's the rate of return on Microsoft cafeteria meal cards?
Apr 5, 2019 5 0 What does it mean when my attempt to stop a Windows NT service fails with ERROR_BROKEN_PIPE? Raymond Chen The Service Control Manager lost contact with the service, but why?
Apr 4, 2019 12 0 Why do we need atomic operations on the 80386, if it doesn’t support symmetric multiprocessing anyway? Raymond Chen You might race with yourself.
Apr 3, 2019 11 0 Dubious security vulnerability: Code execution via LNK file Raymond Chen The hard part is getting them to execute it in the first place.