Nov 22, 2022
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Microspeak: Breaking into jail
Just asking for trouble.
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Nov 21, 2022
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What kind of caller diagnostic information can I get from exceptions thrown by C++/WinRT and wil?
A survey of the current state of the art.
Nov 18, 2022
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On Windows Runtime asynchronous operations with critical progress reports
Make the caller provide the progress handler up front.
Nov 17, 2022
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How soon is too soon to report progress from a C++/WinRT coroutine that implements a Windows Runtime asynchronous operation with progress?
If a progress is sent to a forest but there's no one there to hear it.
Nov 16, 2022
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Why won’t C++/WinRT let me co_await a CoreDispatcher or DispatcherQueue?
Making sure you meet the usual prerequisites.
Nov 15, 2022
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It’s important to get the most difficult part out of the way by putting it in the title
It does much less harm there than in the body.
Nov 15, 2022
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How does Windows decide whether your computer has limited or full Internet access?
Looking for special servers.
Nov 14, 2022
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C++ constexpr parlor tricks: How can I obtain the length of a string at compile time?
The constexpr'ification of strlen.
Nov 11, 2022
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If I issue multiple overlapped I/O requests against the same region of a file, will they execute in the order I issued them?
Overlapped I/O refers to temporal overlap, and that includes completion out of order.
Nov 10, 2022
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On the dangers of giving a product feature the name “new”
It may be new today, but it won't be new tomorrow.