Mar 31, 2020
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Why am I ignoring my second monitor? A case study in working from home.
Settling into the new routine has its rough spots.
Showing results for March 2020 - The Old New Thing
Mar 30, 2020
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A sneaky way to make sure nobody assigns test failures to your team
Buffer overflow.
Mar 27, 2020
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Are Windows Runtime asynchronous operations guaranteed to complete?
As much as anything is guaranteed to complete.
Mar 26, 2020
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If you say that your minimum requirements are the Universal contract, then you need to probe for anything beyond that
Reaching beyond your declaration.
Mar 25, 2020
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How can I check whether a Windows Runtime object supports a member before I try to use it?
You can sniff at the metadata.
Mar 24, 2020
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Accessing a member of a Windows Runtime class raises an InvalidCastException / throws a hresult_no_interface, what does this mean?
It's interfaces under the hood.
Mar 23, 2020
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Why not just share a single event across all critical section?
How will you know when the thundering herd has calmed down?
Mar 20, 2020
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The security check happens at the acquisition of the handle
Once you buy a handle, it's yours to keep.
Mar 19, 2020
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Further refinements to the attempt to create a type-dependent expression that is always false
It still falls down, but for stranger reasons.
Mar 18, 2020
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It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Booting into another operating system
It's not your computer any more.