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Mar 10, 2008
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Why isn't there a GetDlgItemFloat function?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Jonathan Wilson asks, "Do you know why there is a GetDlgItemInt and a SetDlgItemInt but not a GetDlgItemFloat and a SetDlgItemFloat?" Give people five dollars and they'll ask why you didn't give them ten. Let's start with the first question. Why is there a function? After all, doesn't do anything you couldn't already do with and . Well, read...

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Mar 3, 2008
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Why does scheduling a task require a password?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Kevin asks, "Windows XP lets me install applications, delete files, etc., so why does scheduling a task requires a password?" (I guess the answer to this question wasn't obvious since nobody answered it in the suggestion box.) Because scheduled tasks run after you have logged off. All those other operations occur while you are logged on. Yo...

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Feb 29, 2008
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Why can't I get FormatMessage to load my resource string?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

A common mistake I see is people confusing message tables with string resources. This basically shows up in one place: . The folks who were designing Win32 decided that plain string resources weren't fancy enough, so they invented message tables, which is just another way of storing strings in resources. Why string resources weren't good enough ...

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Feb 27, 2008
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If you ask for STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED, you may as well ask for the moon

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

One of the predefined security access masks is . You see it used in defining the masks for various objects. Here are just a few examples: The mask is meant to be used when defining access masks for object types. I'm guessing it's called because it's the set of access masks that all securable objects must support. Look at the documentation o...

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