The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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May 21, 2018
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Maintaining Notepad is not a full-time job, but it’s not an empty job either
Adding features by removing code.
May 18, 2018
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Misdirected security vulnerability: Malformed file results in memory corruption
Who did the corrupting?
May 17, 2018
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How do I create a SAL annotation for a structure with a variable-length array?
The _Field_size_ annotation does the trick.
May 16, 2018
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C++ namespace parlor tricks
Shuffling names around.
May 15, 2018
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Why is Windows Compressed Folders (Zip folders) support stuck at the turn of the century?
Because that's where we last left it.
May 14, 2018
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For a brief period, Windows 95 could run Windows 3.1 in a virtual machine
The ultimate in backward compability.
May 11, 2018
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Why can’t FindWindowEx find another program’s window by name?
Are you sure it's there?
May 10, 2018
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On the difficulty of getting pixel-perfect layout in Win32 dialog templates
That's not what it's for.
May 9, 2018
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Why does my shortcut to a nonexistent file end up with spaces changed to underscores?
Trying to make the best of a bad situation.