The Old New Thing

The subtleties of Create­Stream­On­HGlobal, part 3: Suppressing the deletion of a shared HGLOBAL

September 30, 2021 Sep 30, 2021 09/30/21

Raymond Chen

Trying to set up joint custody.

The subtleties of Create­Stream­On­HGlobal, part 2: Suppressing the deletion of an unknown HGLOBAL

September 29, 2021 Sep 29, 2021 09/29/21

Raymond Chen

You don't know what it is, but you said you don't want it deleted automatically.

The subtleties of Create­Stream­On­HGlobal, part 1: Introduction and basic usage

September 28, 2021 Sep 28, 2021 09/28/21

Raymond Chen

Developing the mental model.

Why am I getting an unresolved external from C++/WinRT if it is a header-only C++ library?

September 27, 2021 Sep 27, 2021 09/27/21

Raymond Chen

Maybe you didn't get all of the headers.

The case of the UWP application that crashes at launch on Windows 10X

September 24, 2021 Sep 24, 2021 09/24/21

Raymond Chen

Look before you leap.

Why is there trailing garbage when I try to decode the bytes of a HttpContent object?

September 23, 2021 Sep 23, 2021 09/23/21

Raymond Chen

You need to know when to stop.

Converting between UTF-8 strings and UTF-16 strings in C++/WinRT

September 22, 2021 Sep 22, 2021 09/22/21

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A pair of conversion functions.

The CertUtil program will decode Windows error codes, and in a variety of formats

September 21, 2021 Sep 21, 2021 09/21/21

Raymond Chen

Even more versatile than NET HELPMSG.

What does this mean? The caller specified wait timed out before the operation completed because a host termination is in queued

September 20, 2021 Sep 20, 2021 09/20/21

Raymond Chen

An error message written with infrastructure-colored glasses.

Adventures in application compatibility: The case of the wild instruction pointer that, upon closer inspection, might not be so wild after all

September 17, 2021 Sep 17, 2021 09/17/21

Raymond Chen

The search for clues leads to an unexpected place.