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How does Explorer find the “first” icon in a file

It enumerates them and takes the first one, so this is really a question about enumeration.

Using alternate locales to get more interesting case mapping than the C

Looking for something better.

The default C locale is not a very interesting one

It barely understands anything.

On exactly when XAML bindings are evaluated if an element is not yet loaded

It depends on which abstraction you prefer.

The original name for Flexible Single Master Operations in Active Directory

Not that kind of F-word.

On trying to log an exception as it leaves your scope

You can't watch it from an object on the outside.

Creating a generic insertion iterator, part 2

Satisfying the iterator requirements, perhaps with a little cheating.

Creating a generic insertion iterator, part 1

We provide the boilerplate; you provide the smarts.

How do I create an inserter iterator that does unhinted insertion into an associative container like std::map
?

Curiously missing from the standard library.