The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Aug 7, 2023
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Inside STL: The map, set, multimap, and multiset
A red-black tree.
Aug 4, 2023
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Inside STL: The lists
Your traditional singly- or doubly-linked list.
Aug 3, 2023
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Inside STL: The string
An allocation, with a twist.
Aug 2, 2023
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Inside STL: The vector
A contiguous memory block, reallocated as necessary.
Aug 1, 2023
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Inside STL: The pair and the compressed pair
Two fields in one object, how hard can it be?
Jul 31, 2023
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Misinterpreting the misleadingly-named STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN
The subcode tells you why we stopped executing, and it's rarely because of a stack buffer overflow.
Jul 28, 2023
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How to split off an older copy of a file while preserving git line history
Variation on a theme.
Jul 27, 2023
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Perfect forwarding forwards objects, not braced things that are trying to become objects
Before you can forward something, it needs to be a something.
Jul 26, 2023
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On the various ways of creating Windows Runtime delegates in C++/WinRT and C++/CX
Comparing and contrasting.