Sep 19, 2025
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Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Not a legal base class
What would make it an illegal base class?
Sep 18, 2025
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Can I close a duplicate handle while I’m waiting on the original?
That's fine, since you're not closing the handle that you're waiting on.
Sep 17, 2025
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How can I get my shell thumbnail extractors to run in the same process?
Adding another level of indirection.
Sep 16, 2025
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Translating the STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN status code into customer-ready text
Reducing the level of alarm.
Sep 15, 2025
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Why is the name of the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 hard-coded into the Bluetooth drivers?
Is it some sort of favoritism?
Sep 12, 2025
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How can I convert a third party in-process server so it runs in the COM surrogate?
You can put your own object in the surrogate first.
Sep 11, 2025
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Why can’t std::apply figure out which overload I intend to use? Only one of then will work!
The overload resolution happens before the compiler knows what it's going to be used for.
Sep 10, 2025
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The documentation says that CompanyName version information is required, but my program seems to work without it, so how required is it?
It's more of a "Very strongly recommended" than a "Required".
Sep 9, 2025
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A suggestion to people who assign nicknames to meeting rooms
Lean into the pattern. Don't try to cross it up.
Sep 8, 2025
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Why didn’t Windows 95 simply special-case the laptops that locked up when it executed the HLT instruction?
The catastrophic risk of bricking a computer.