Nov 6, 2025 Post comments count3 Post likes count1 Non-recursively deleting a binary tree in constant space: Synthesizing the parent pointer Raymond Chen Making one as you go.
Nov 5, 2025 Post comments count9 Post likes count2 Non-recursively deleting a binary tree in constant space: Traversal with parent pointers Raymond Chen First assume that you have a parent pointer.
Nov 4, 2025 Post comments count3 Post likes count3 The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share the same memory Raymond Chen Reportedly Microsoft's first hardware product.
Nov 3, 2025 Post comments count3 Post likes count2 Why does SHFormatDateTime take an unaligned FILETIME? Raymond Chen Designed for its original use case.
Oct 31, 2025 Post comments count4 Post likes count1 Microspeak: turn into a pumpkin Raymond Chen To disappear, such as for the year-end holidays.
Oct 30, 2025 Post comments count8 Post likes count3 Trying to build a XAML tree in code throws a “No installed components were detected” exception Raymond Chen An unfortunate error code collision, but the explanatory text leads the way.
Oct 29, 2025 Post comments count2 Post likes count2 What to do when you have a crash in the runtime control flow guard check Raymond Chen You don't have to understand it, but you should be able to extract data from it.
Oct 28, 2025 Post comments count17 Post likes count9 How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base? Raymond Chen Ported bit by bit.
Oct 27, 2025 Post comments count11 Post likes count5 Dubious security vulnerability: Denial of service by loading a very large file Raymond Chen I mean, it's what you asked it to do.
Oct 24, 2025 Post comments count0 Post likes count2 The early history of the Windows Runtime PropertyValue and why there is a PropertyType.Inspectable that is never used Raymond Chen It used to be there because PropertyValue started out as the fundamental variant type before shifting focus to being the fundamental boxed type.