The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Sep 20, 2024
How can I check that all the changes in a git branch have been cherry-picked or rebased into its upstream branch?
You can pretend to merge it and see if anything happens.
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Sep 19, 2024
My window has the WS_EX_NOACTIVATE extended style, but it got activated anyway
Well, at least it wasn't activated by a click.
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Sep 18, 2024
More on the mysterious [default_interface] attribute in Windows Runtime classes
Forcing you to make a choice.
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Sep 17, 2024
It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Posting completions to somebody else’s I/O completion port
If you have gained access to it, then that was the problem.
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Sep 13, 2024
The case of the fail-fast crashes coming from the power management system
Understanding why it decided to fail fast.
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Sep 12, 2024
How can I tell whether two programs will share drive letter mappings?
You can compare the authentication IDs.
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Sep 11, 2024
The case of the string being copied from a mysterious pointer to invalid memory, revisited
Reflections on an older topic.
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Sep 10, 2024
Does the Resource Compiler have a separate preprocessor or doesn’t it?
It did, but now it doesn't.
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