The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Nov 30, 2015
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Enumerating all the programs that can open a particular file extension
SHAssocEnumHandlers.
Nov 27, 2015
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In order to serve you better: Charging your credit card in your home currency
For a fee.
Nov 27, 2015
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How can I append to a file and know where it got written, even if the file is being updated by multiple processes?
File locking strikes again.
Nov 26, 2015
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The increasing urgency of a request to fill out a survey
Let's try that again.
Nov 25, 2015
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Clarifying the documentation on wildcards accepted by FindFirstFile/FindFirstFileEx
Only in the file name portion.
Nov 24, 2015
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We got around three
One in a million, or not quite.
Nov 23, 2015
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Playing with synchroninzation barriers
All for one and one for all.
Nov 20, 2015
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Investigating a problem constructing a security descriptor to deny thread-specific access rights to Everyone
Clearing up the confusion and deleting code.
Nov 19, 2015
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Stupid JavaScript debugging tricks: Abusing the conditional breakpoint
Code injection.