The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Jun 25, 2025
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Your information has been permanently deleted, for small values of permanently
Is it really gone?
Jun 25, 2025
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Why do I get errors about some weird symbol called ?main@@YAHP$01E$AAV?$Array@PE$AAVString@Platform…, part 1
Welcome to the world of C++/CX. Is "welcome" the right word?
Jun 24, 2025
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Abusing copyright strings to trick software into thinking it’s running on your competitor’s PC
I did technically cross my fingers.
Jun 23, 2025
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The MIDL compiler still has trouble with double greater-than signs, sadly
Many have tried.
Jun 20, 2025
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The case of the invalid handle error when a handle is closed while a thread is waiting on it
You are theorizing one race but experiencing another.
Jun 19, 2025
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Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Ambiguous symbol errors after including a header file
Finding out why multiple entities with the same name are visible.
Jun 18, 2025
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You have to tell Get- and SetSecurityInfo the object type, you can’t make it guess
It needs to know which provider to give it to.
Jun 17, 2025
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Funding the Egghead store shopping spree took a little extra legwork
Just ask the boss.
Jun 16, 2025
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Writing a helper class for generating a particular category of C callback wrappers around C++ methods
Another exercise in C++ template programming.