Mar 22, 2019
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Turning anything into a fire-and-forget coroutine
Turning on the metaprogramming.
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Mar 21, 2019
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Expressing fire-and-forget coroutines more explicitly, -or- How to turn any coroutine into fire-and-forget
Putting it at the call site instead of in the function itself.
Mar 20, 2019
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winrt::fire_and_forget was too forgetful
Usually, you don't care when it finishes, as long as it does.
Mar 19, 2019
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Why does my app’s uninstaller disappear from the Start menu?
Keeping things tidy.
Mar 18, 2019
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How do I design a class so that methods must be called in a certain order?
Consider it a chain of operation objects.
Mar 15, 2019
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How can we use IsBadWritePtr to fix a buffer overflow, if IsBadWritePtr is itself bad?
Don't catch the overflow as it happens. Stop the overflow before it happens.
Mar 14, 2019
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Resolving security issues sometimes involves its own degree of managing people’s egos
It's not purely technical. There's sociology here, too.
Mar 13, 2019
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Welcome to my new home on the Microsoft Developer Tools and Services blog site
Pardon the dust.
Mar 13, 2019
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Why is there a limit of 15 shell icon overlays?
Ran out of bits.
Mar 12, 2019
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Asking for clear written documentation that “Require trusted path for credential entry” is no longer recommended
It was never recommended in the first place.