The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Oct 5, 2018
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How can I use WS_CLIPCHILDREN and still be able to draw a control with a transparent background?
Removing all the barriers to painting, perhaps too many.
Oct 4, 2018
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Can I be sure that turning on automatic generation of short file names will get me short file names?
You can try hard, but it may not succeed.
Oct 3, 2018
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Practical example of why you need to leave room for German localization
Try to say it all in one breath.
Oct 2, 2018
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All sorts of bad things happen when we disable the Task Scheduler service, is that bad?
Well, it sure doesn't sound good.
Oct 1, 2018
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Generating a table with vertical text, like I did with the sad history of the C++ throw(…) exception specifier
Here's how I did it.
Sep 28, 2018
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The sad history of the C++ throw(…) exception specifier
I promise not to throw, but who's going to check?
Sep 27, 2018
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Can you wear wallpaper on your feet? You can if it’s a PARTY.BMP!
Wearing your history.
Sep 27, 2018
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Considering the performance implications of converting recursion to an explicit stack
Another game of trade-offs and balances.
Sep 26, 2018
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What does the thread parameter to SetWindowsHookEx actually mean?
What does it mean to be "associated" with a thread?