The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Horrifically nasty gotcha: FindResource and FindResourceEx
The old switcheroo.
2014 year-end link clearance
Another round of the semi-annual link clearance...
Even the publishing department had its own Year 2000 preparedness plan
On December 31, 1999, Microsoft Product Support Services were ready in case something horrible happened as the calendar rolled over into the new year. I'm ...
How did that program manage to pin itself to my taskbar when I installed it?
Occasionally, somebody will notice that upon installing a program, it managed to pin itself to the taskbar. But just like there is no function, there is also ...
Integer signum in SSE
The signum function is defined as follows: There are a couple of ways of calculating this in SSE integers. One way is to convert the C idiom The SSE ...
Debugging walkthrough: Access violation on nonsense instruction
A colleague of mine asked for help puzzling out a mysterious crash dump which arrived via Windows Error Reporting. Well that's a pretty strange instruction...
My pants are fancy!
During the development of Windows, the User Research team tried out an early build of some proposed changes on volunteers from the general community. During ...
How can I let my child use an app that I bought from the Windows Store?
If you buy an app from the Windows Store, you can make it available to other users on the same Windows PC. This is useful if you, say, buy an app for your child...
The Softsel Hot List for the week of December 22, 1986
Look at all that stuff people bought.