Why doesn’t my asynchronous read operation complete when I close the handle? July 30, 2021 Jul 30, 2021 07/30/21 Raymond Chen Because the file isn't closed yet.
On the interaction between the FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING and FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH flags July 29, 2021 Jul 29, 2021 07/29/21 Raymond Chen Let's fill in another table.
How can I prevent the mouse from moving in response to touch input? July 28, 2021 Jul 28, 2021 07/28/21 Raymond Chen You need to make your program pointer-aware.
Twitter misdetected the 2011 Build conference keynote as a denial-of-service attack July 27, 2021 Jul 27, 2021 07/27/21 Raymond Chen Just a lot of excited developers.
Diagnosing why your batch file prints a garbage character, one character, and nothing more July 26, 2021 Jul 26, 2021 07/26/21 Raymond Chen Following the clues you have.
The history of passing a null pointer as the key name to RegOpenKeyEx July 23, 2021 Jul 23, 2021 07/23/21 Raymond Chen It doesn't mean anything special any more, but it once did.
The case of the strange NT-style path that was discovered by SearchPath July 22, 2021 Jul 22, 2021 07/22/21 Raymond Chen Remember where it searches.
I know I can change the color of the DC pen, but what about the other attributes? July 21, 2021 Jul 21, 2021 07/21/21 Raymond Chen They're locked in, sorry.
Why does the New menu even exist for creating new empty files? July 20, 2021 Jul 20, 2021 07/20/21 Raymond Chen You have to open the file anyway to make it useful, so why not just open the program directly?
C++11 braced initialization made the impossible possible (and how to fix it so it stays impossible) July 19, 2021 Jul 19, 2021 07/19/21 Raymond Chen Braced initialization to the rescue, or denied.