The Old New Thing

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.