The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Jan 15, 2016
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What does this crash in TppRaiseHandleStatus mean?
Imagining how a feature was written.
Jan 14, 2016
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When you start talking about numbers as small as 2⁻¹²², you have to start looking more closely at the things you thought were zero
Do the math.
Jan 13, 2016
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My program for faking debugging demos
Looking behind the curtain.
Jan 12, 2016
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Getting one’s paycheck from some mysterious pile of money
But at least you get to visit the receptionist.
Jan 11, 2016
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Creating a shell extension that applies only to files with a very specific name
The AppliesTo tag.
Jan 8, 2016
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The FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE flag applies to the handle, also known as the file object, which is not the same as the file
The file on disk, the representation of the file, and the reference to the representation of the file.
Jan 7, 2016
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It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Attacking the system clock
Tick.
Jan 6, 2016
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Why does the mouse cursor jump a few pixels when you right-click on the Start button?
To make it easy to click the first item.
Jan 5, 2016
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Why did Windows NT decline to support an undocumented flag to TrackPopupMenuEx?
Duh.