The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Non-recursively deleting a binary tree in constant space: Traversal with parent pointers
First assume that you have a parent pointer.
The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share the same memory
Reportedly Microsoft's first hardware product.
Why does SHFormatDateTime take an unaligned FILETIME?
Designed for its original use case.
Microspeak: turn into a pumpkin
To disappear, such as for the year-end holidays.
Trying to build a XAML tree in code throws a “No installed components were detected” exception
An unfortunate error code collision, but the explanatory text leads the way.
What to do when you have a crash in the runtime control flow guard check
You don't have to understand it, but you should be able to extract data from it.
How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
Ported bit by bit.
Dubious security vulnerability: Denial of service by loading a very large file
I mean, it's what you asked it to do.
The early history of the Windows Runtime PropertyValue and why there is a PropertyType.Inspectable that is never used
It used to be there because PropertyValue started out as the fundamental variant type before shifting focus to being the fundamental boxed type.