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The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
Latest posts
Trying to build a XAML tree in code throws a “No installed components were detected” exception
An unfortunate error code collision, but the explanatory text leads the way.
What to do when you have a crash in the runtime control flow guard check
You don't have to understand it, but you should be able to extract data from it.
How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
Ported bit by bit.
Dubious security vulnerability: Denial of service by loading a very large file
I mean, it's what you asked it to do.
The early history of the Windows Runtime PropertyValue and why there is a PropertyType.Inspectable that is never used
It used to be there because PropertyValue started out as the fundamental variant type before shifting focus to being the fundamental boxed type.
Windows Runtime design principle: Properties can be set in any order
If all you're doing is setting properties, you can do it any way you like.
What makes cheap_steady_clock faster than std::chrono::high_resolution_clock ?
It's quite a bit faster, though maybe you don't care.
Microspeak: The hockey stick on wheels
You're always a year away.
What about the icons in pifmgr.dll?
Just for fun.