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It's basically a union of a pointer and an integer.

Let's do some debugging.

Applying tricks to avoid the pitfalls.

If you are using the Concurrency Runtime to represent asynchronous activity, there are some hidden constraints on the type . If you violate these constraints, the compiler will complain, but perhaps not in an obvious way.¹ If you try to create a where does not have a public default constructor, then you get an error like And if the is not ...

Everything in its place.

The ToastNotifier settings will tell you.

Sometimes you feel like an accelerator table, sometimes you don't.

Letting in the riffraff.

What happens if you use it anyway?

Does it have a special under-the-table deal with the Unicode Consortium?