Sep 20, 2023 Post comments count1 Post likes count1 Why does my C++/WinRT project get unresolved externals for constructors? Raymond Chen You forgot to include the namespace header file, didn't you.
Sep 15, 2023 Post comments count6 Post likes count2 How can I prevent myself from using a parameter after I’ve extracted all value from it? Raymond Chen You can shadow it with something useless.
Sep 14, 2023 Post comments count7 Post likes count3 I accidentally performed an operation on INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, and it worked: What just happened? Raymond Chen Coincidentally valid, but not what you think.
Sep 13, 2023 Post comments count1 Post likes count2 How do I perform a case-insensitive comparison of two strings in the Deseret script? Raymond Chen It sort of depends on why you're comparing them.
Sep 11, 2023 Post comments count27 Post likes count8 Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware Raymond Chen The common pattern of trying to delete yourself.
Sep 8, 2023 Post comments count3 Post likes count4 On transferring or copying ABI pointers between smart pointers Raymond Chen Keep track of who owns the reference.
Sep 6, 2023 Post comments count2 Post likes count2 Detecting whether a tree-like data structure contains a cycle Raymond Chen Combining two things we already know.
Sep 1, 2023 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 How do I find out more about the fail-fast exception that occurs when an exception in a PPL task goes unobserved? Raymond Chen Digging into the internals.
Aug 31, 2023 Post comments count0 Post likes count3 Diagnosing a crash when trying to call ReadFile via language interop Raymond Chen Checking the signatures and inferring what could have gone wrong.
Aug 30, 2023 Post comments count2 Post likes count5 How can I programmatically obtain the value of the “Make text bigger” slider? Raymond Chen The text scale factor property.