Microspeak: Click stop February 18, 2020 Feb 18, 2020 02/18/20 Raymond Chen A place to pause and refresh.
Gotcha: A threadpool periodic timer will not wait for the previous tick to complete February 17, 2020 Feb 17, 2020 02/17/20 Raymond Chen Don't be like Lucy in the chocolate factory.
Quality updates: Consequences for rogue-patched binaries February 14, 2020 Feb 14, 2020 02/14/20 Raymond Chen You can't get back any more.
Survey of Windows update formats: The Quality update, which obsoletes all the others February 13, 2020 Feb 13, 2020 02/13/20 Raymond Chen Supports everything the others do, at a fraction of the price.
Survey of Windows update formats: The Express update February 12, 2020 Feb 12, 2020 02/12/20 Raymond Chen It's faster in some ways, slower in others.
Survey of Windows update formats: The Delta update February 11, 2020 Feb 11, 2020 02/11/20 Raymond Chen Trying to do some trimming.
Survey of Windows update formats: The Full update February 10, 2020 Feb 10, 2020 02/10/20 Raymond Chen First we need to understand where we started.
Psychic debugging: Why does my app sometimes fail to change the display settings? February 7, 2020 Feb 7, 2020 02/7/20 Raymond Chen Maybe you're in the box.
Why does my C++/WinRT project get errors of the form “abi<…>::… is abstract see reference to producer<…>“? February 6, 2020 Feb 6, 2020 02/6/20 Raymond Chen Nobody said how to produce the interface.
The various patterns for passing C-style arrays across the Windows Runtime ABI boundary February 5, 2020 Feb 5, 2020 02/5/20 Raymond Chen It's not an object, but not a scalar either.