The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Feb 12, 2016
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We batched up our COM requests and return a single stream of results, but the performance is still slow
Your stream marshaled by reference.
Feb 11, 2016
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Debugging walkthrough: Diagnosing an NX exception
Leap of faith.
Feb 10, 2016
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If somebody creates or deletes a file in a directory while I am enumerating its contents, what happens?
It's not really predictable.
Feb 9, 2016
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Hey, you work for Microsoft. Do you know…?
Sometimes the longshot pays off.
Feb 8, 2016
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How can I get the canonical name for a known folder?
You ask it.
Feb 5, 2016
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The overly complicated rules for American football
Attempting to close a loophole creates another loophole.
Feb 5, 2016
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If I issue a second overlapped I/O operation without waiting for the first one to complete, are they still guaranteed to complete in order?
Of course not. That's why it's called "overlapped."
Feb 4, 2016
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How do I prevent a child process from displaying the Windows Error Reporting dialog?
Take advantage of the fact that SetErrorMode is inherited.
Feb 3, 2016
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Localization gotcha: The RTL question mark
Depends on the locale.