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A customer asked what to me was a very strange question. Can process IDs be greater than 64000? Because we're seeing process IDs greater than 64000. This is a strange question because the answer is right there: You're seeing process IDs greater than 64000 with your very own eyes. Do you doubt the evidence right there in front of you? It's li...

The error Optional parameter missing sounds awfully paradoxical, doesn't it. I mean, if the parameter is optional, why are you complaining that it's missing? This KB article explains why, specifically, the part that says, "If a parameter is omitted, the calling program must…". For those who don't want to click through, here's the deal: Me...

Instead of a Little Program today, I'm going to answer a Little Question. This is a common beginner question, but I figure I'll just spell it out right here for posterity. First of all, you probably noticed that you can't do this: That's because the is declared as a so-called free function, but member functions are not free. Neither are func...

A programmer on the GHI team reported that they were hitting an assertion failure using an internal library and asked for help debugging it. I didn't work on this internal library, but on the other hand I'm also not afraid to look inside and around. The assertion failure said, "Assertion failed: All widgets from a factory must be destroyed be...

The structure has a field called which is a . There is also a function which returns a . Both are documented as returning the time the message was generated, but the types are different. Are these time units comparable? Yes, they are the same thing. They all use the 32-bit timer provided by the function. Sorry about the inconsistency in sign...

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The second parameter to the is an optional window handle that is used to tell the function to retrieve only messages that belong to the specified window. A filtered is nearly always a bad idea, because your program will not respond to messages that don't meet the filter. Unlike a filtered (which simply returns "no messages satisfy the filter...

Remember octal? I don't.

Today's Little Program creates a listview with checkboxes on some items but not other. The extended style is really just a convenience style. Everything it does you could have done yourself, with a bit more typing. It creates a state image list consisting of an unchecked box (state 1) and a checked box (state 2). You could have done t...

A customer wanted to move a file and have it forget all its old ACLs and instead inherit its ACLs from its new location. They found an old article of mine that said If you use to move a file and pass the flag, then it will not preserve the original ACLs on the moved files but will rather recalculate them from the destination's inheritable prop...