Dubious security vulnerability: Code execution via LNK file
April 3, 2019Apr 3, 201904/3/19The hard part is getting them to execute it in the first place.
April 3, 2019Apr 3, 201904/3/19April 3, 2019Apr 3, 201904/3/19On the bogosity of speculation: Guessing the price of the original Surface
April 2, 2019Apr 2, 201904/2/19Scraping the barrel.
Oh no, it’s inspection time again
April 1, 2019Apr 1, 201904/1/19Great moments in history.
C++/WinRT envy: Bringing thread switching tasks to C# (WPF and WinForms edition)
March 29, 2019Mar 29, 201903/29/19More magic tasks that break out of the thread configuration mold.
C++/WinRT envy: Bringing thread switching tasks to C# (UWP edition)
March 28, 2019Mar 28, 201903/28/19Magic tasks that break out of the thread configuration mold.
How do I wait for the completion of the delegate I passed to CoreDispatcher.RunAsync and ThreadPool.RunAsync?
March 27, 2019Mar 27, 201903/27/19You’ll need your own signal.
When do CoreDispatcher.RunAsync and ThreadPool.RunAsync actions complete?
March 26, 2019Mar 26, 201903/26/19When the delegate returns, not when it completes.
What does the N in nmake stand for?
March 25, 2019Mar 25, 201903/25/19It’s old now, but at the time, it was new.
Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2019
March 22, 2019Mar 22, 201903/22/19For all your retro-computing gawking.
Turning anything into a fire-and-forget coroutine
March 22, 2019Mar 22, 201903/22/19Turning on the metaprogramming.
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What does this strange value for “Percent CPU” mean in Performance Monitor?
April 17, 2019Apr 17, 201904/17/19It’s the percent CPU, but you have to undo the various adjustments you requested.
Microspeak: Occupant compression
April 16, 2019Apr 16, 201904/16/19Ouch, it hurts when you squeeze me there.
Today is tax day, but it’s also division meeting day, so let’s get you some forms to fill out
April 15, 2019Apr 15, 201904/15/19Render unto Caesar, but ask for a little more time.
How can a desktop app use a Windows Runtime object that infers UI context from its thread? The IInitializeWithWindow pattern
April 12, 2019Apr 12, 201904/12/19Explicitly associating with a window handle.
How can I determine the reason why my window is closing?
April 11, 2019Apr 11, 201904/11/19Listen for signals.
Even if you open a file with GUID, you can still get its name, or at least one of its names
April 10, 2019Apr 10, 201904/10/19GetFinalPathByHandle works even for files opened by ID.
When I select multiple files in the File Open dialog, why does the last item come first?
April 9, 2019Apr 9, 201904/9/19Because it’s the focus.
Optimizing your cafeteria meal card stockpile
April 8, 2019Apr 8, 201904/8/19What’s the rate of return on Microsoft cafeteria meal cards?
What does it mean when my attempt to stop a Windows NT service fails with ERROR_BROKEN_PIPE?
April 5, 2019Apr 5, 201904/5/19The Service Control Manager lost contact with the service, but why?
Why do we need atomic operations on the 80386, if it doesn’t support symmetric multiprocessing anyway?
April 4, 2019Apr 4, 201904/4/19You might race with yourself.