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Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Nice job, you got an A minus from Bill
That's as high as it goes.
Further adventures in trying to guess what encoding a file is in
Today's candidate: IMultiLanguage2::DetectCodepageInIStream
Non-capturing C++ lambdas can be converted to a pointer to function, but what about the calling convention?
Nothing to see, so nothing to pass.
What's the point of using a custom timer queue if there is a default one already?
A customer observed that when you create a timer via , you have the option of passing either to get the default timer queue or a handle to a custom timer queue created by the function. Why would you want to create a custom timer queue? If you create a custom timer queue, then you know that all the timers in the queue are yours. For example, there might be another component in the process that creates a lot of timers in the default timer queue. If you had put your timers in the default timer queue, then your timers will risk starvation. It's the same sort of logic that might lead you to create a custom heap in...
When asking about the capacity of a program, you also need to consider what happens when you decide to stop using the program
It'll fit as long as you need it.
Microspeak: Light up
Enabling functionality when available.
The 2015/2016 Seattle Symphony subscription season at a glance
The pocket reference guide for 2015/2016.
Reading the word under the cursor via UI Automation
Grab and go.
What is this inconsistent heap state that MSDN warns me about during DLL_PROCESS_DETACH?
Following through on consequences of TerminateThread.