The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Feb 18, 2025
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Your statement is now available, just two hidden flyouts and five clicks away
Beware of the leopard.
Feb 17, 2025
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API design note: Beware of adding an “Other” enum value
What are you going to do when you add a new kind?
Feb 14, 2025
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Investigating an argument-dependent lookup issue and working around it
Picking apart the language specification.
Feb 13, 2025
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A sample implementation of the weak reference pattern for COM callbacks
A forwarder through a weak reference.
Feb 12, 2025
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Async-Async revisited: What about cancellation?
Even the cancellation is async.
Feb 11, 2025
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Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS can do graphics?
Oh look what you just made there.
Feb 10, 2025
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How does Explorer find the “first” icon in a file
It enumerates them and takes the first one, so this is really a question about enumeration.
Feb 7, 2025
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Using alternate locales to get more interesting case mapping than the C
Looking for something better.
Feb 6, 2025
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The default C locale is not a very interesting one
It barely understands anything.