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Raymond Chen: Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 25 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He currently appears regularly on MSDN Channel 9’s One Dev Minute channel in the One Dev Question video series.

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When you need to pass two sets of variadic parameters, and to work around other extremely weird edge cases.

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How can I force a <CODE>WriteFile</CODE> or <CODE>ReadFile</CODE> to complete synchronously or hang, in order to test something?

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You can use a named pipe.

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Lost in a twisty maze of universal references.

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How do I access and customize the IInspectable methods of a Windows Runtime class written in C++/WinRT?

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The desperation of programming under tight memory constraints.

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The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2

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How can I <CODE>co_await</CODE> on a Windows Runtime async action or operation with a timeout?

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