The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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The back cover of C++: The Programming Language also raises questions not answered by the front cover
Not doing the reading.
Rotation revisited: Avoiding having to calculate the gcd when doing cycle decomposition
Math is hard. Let's go counting!
Rotation revisited: Cycle decomposition in clang’s libcxx
Rotating in the minimum number of steps by performing cycle decomposition.
Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc’s unidirectional rotation algorithm
We've seen this before.
Rotation revisited: Another unidirectional algorithm
Moving in a straight line, in a different way.
The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was “modern”
Modern this and that.
Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 3
A variation where we try only once.
Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 2
Just let each person take turns trying.
Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 1
Caching the result and knowing when the cache is valid.
If C# and JavaScript lets me await a Windows Runtime asynchronous operation more than once, why not C++/WinRT?
A difference in philosophy.
A hypothetical redesign of System.Diagnostics.Process to avoid confusion over properties that are valid only when you are the one who called Start
Putting them in a place that can access only if you call <CODE>Start</CODE>.
Why do you say that a COM STA thread must pump messages if I see sample code creating STA threads and not pumping messages?
You need to pump messages when idle, but maybe you are never idle.
How do I use Win32 structures from the Windows Runtime?
Trick question: You can't. But maybe you can fake it.
The classic TreeView control lets me sort by name or by lParam, but why not both?
You need to arrange to get one from the other.
What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code?
The storage control blocks were destroyed.
Just shows that nobody cares about debugging the parity flag any more
Reported incorrectly since the day it was written.
The case of the CreateFileMapping that always reported ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS
Maybe because it already exists?
A constant-space linear-time algorithm for deleting all but the 10 most recent files in a directory
Using data structures you already knew.