The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Feb 18, 2016
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Nasty gotcha: VarCmp vs VariantCompare
Similar names, different return values.
Feb 17, 2016
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Don’t just grab the foreground window and host UI on it, redux
Oops, it's not there any more.
Feb 16, 2016
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I have difficulty following Swedish when spoken at conversational speed, and I count on being able to read the subtitles in order to catch up
This doesn't help.
Feb 16, 2016
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If I select multiple files of different types, why does the Open verb disappear?
It won't always work.
Feb 15, 2016
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How can I get the name for the user’s profile directory that is shown in Explorer?
You ask the shell namespace.
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.