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We saw some time ago that permission to delete a file is granted either File attributes behave in an analogous way. Permission to read a file's attributes is granted either If you want the file's attributes, you could always get it by reading the directory, because one of the pieces of information you get from is the file attributes. There...

You don't need to.

COM methods cannot be variadic. Why not? Answer: Because the marshaler doesn't know when to stop. Suppose variadic COM methods were possible. And then you wrote this code: How would COM know how to marshal this function call? In other words, suppose that is a pointer to a proxy that refers to an object in another process. The COM marshaler...

Yes.

Don't just make up something. There are rules.

Just the one you are told about.

Legacy time/date format.

Call me, honey.

It was always incorrect, you just didn't know it.

Make sure the object of your action exists before you try it.