The Old New Thing

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.