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Today is a holiday in the United States, so I'm going to celebrate by referring you to other things to read. I'm going to start with a presentation by Bruce Dawson at GDC 2009, which is basically multiple instances of the question "Is this code correct?", and the answer is always "No!" Although the title of the talk is Lockless Programming in Game...

Today's Little Program strips diacritics from a Unicode string. Why? Hey, I said that Little Programs require little to no motivation. It might come in handy in a spam filter, since it was popular, at least for a time, to put random accent marks on spam subject lines in order to sneak past keyword filters. (It doesn't seem to be popular any more.)...

My initial reaction to this question was to say, "I don't know if I'd call it wrong, but I'd call it highly inadvisable." I'd like to revise my guidance. It's flat-out wrong, at least in the case where you call it while impersonating. The registry key is bound to the current user at the time the key is first accessed by a process: The mapping...

If you load a library with the flag, then it isn't really loaded in any normal sense. In fact, it's kept completely off the books. If you load a library with the , , or flag (or any similar flag added in the future), then the library gets mapped into the process address space, but it is not a true module. Functions like , , and will not see th...

If you use the Remote Desktop Connection client to connect to another computer, you have the option of making your local drives available to the remote computer. A customer wanted to know how to enumerate all the drives on the local machine. The were able to get the volumes mapped to drive letters, but they also wanted to get the redirected dri...

The and functions return "the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since the system was started." (The 32-bit version wraps around after around 50 days.) But when exactly is the system considered to have started? Is it when power is applied to the computer? When the BIOS completes POST? When the user picks the operating system from the boot m...

A customer wanted to know how to detect that all startup applications have finished launching. They wanted to wait until everything settled down before proceeding with some task. What if two programs did this? Suppose two programs both wanted to detect that all startup applications have finished launching. Each one would sit there waiting for the...

Today's "Little Program" is really a "Little Puzzle" that got out of hand. This started out as a practical question: This code fragment screams out for some sort of simplification. (I've changed the names of the classes.) Clearly, the pattern is Everything here is pretty straightforward, except for the part. Can we write a function that t...

A customer had written a plug-in for some application, and they found that their plug-in was unable to create a SysLink control via the function. The same code in a standalone application works fine, but when the code is placed in their plug-in, the code fails. Debugging showed that the call to succeeded, but the call failed with "Cannot find w...

There are various ways of getting a monitor. You can get the monitor from a point, from a rectangle, or from a window. But how do you get the primary monitor? The primary monitor is defined to be the one which has (0, 0) as its origin. Therefore, one solution is The desktop window by convention is deemed to reside primarily on the primary mo...