The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver™ November 19, 2019 Nov 19, 2019 11/19/19 Raymond Chen For your magical build needs.
I set the same ACL with the GUI and with icacls, yet the results are different November 18, 2019 Nov 18, 2019 11/18/19 Raymond Chen Sometimes your tools lie to you.
My summer vacation: The London Eye November 15, 2019 Nov 15, 2019 11/15/19 Raymond Chen Round and round. We'll, really just round. No "and round".
Why does my single-threaded program have multiple threads? November 15, 2019 Nov 15, 2019 11/15/19 Raymond Chen They're not your threads, but they're in your process.
Can the MTA thread exit while keeping its COM class registrations alive? November 14, 2019 Nov 14, 2019 11/14/19 Raymond Chen You can keep the MTA alive without having to dedicate a thread.
Not even getting to the airtight hatchway: Planting files in world-writable directories November 13, 2019 Nov 13, 2019 11/13/19 Raymond Chen But who uses that world-writable directory?
How can I copy or move a group of files into a new folder from Explorer? November 12, 2019 Nov 12, 2019 11/12/19 Raymond Chen Putting together things you already have.
The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem: Redrawing during resizing November 11, 2019 Nov 11, 2019 11/11/19 Raymond Chen You'll have to invalidate it, either the easy way or the hard way.
Can I force a WM_TIMER message to be generated when the timer comes due, even if the message queue is not idle? November 8, 2019 Nov 8, 2019 11/8/19 Raymond Chen You can ask for it explicitly.
How can I give a C++ lambda expression more than one operator()? November 7, 2019 Nov 7, 2019 11/7/19 Raymond Chen Wacky template games.