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Why do you say that a COM STA thread must pump messages if I see sample code creating STA threads and not pumping messages?
1 day ago
One of the rules for COM single-threaded apartments (STA) is that the...
How do I use Win32 structures from the Windows Runtime?
2 days ago
The Windows Runtime attempts to provide a language-independent interface for Windows APIs...
The classic TreeView control lets me sort by name or by lParam, but why not both?
3 days ago
The Win32 TreeView control in the common controls library provides two ways...
What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code?
4 days ago
Error code 7 is ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED. What does this mean? It sounds like...
Just shows that nobody cares about debugging the parity flag any more
5 days ago
The x86-64 architecture inherited the parity flag (PF) from the x86-32, which...
The case of the CreateFileMapping that always reported ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS
8 days ago
A customer reported that whenever their program called CreateFileMapping to create a...
A constant-space linear-time algorithm for deleting all but the 10 most recent files in a directory
9 days ago
Say you have a directory full of files, and you want to...
The case of the hang when the user changed keyboard layouts
10 days ago
A customer reported that their program hung when the user changed keyboard...
Why do Windows client editions on 32-bit x86 systems artificially limit RAM to 4 GB?
11 days ago
Windows XP SP 2 introduced Data Execution Prevention (DEP), which takes advantage...
Additional notes on controlling which handles are inherited by CreateProcess
12 days ago
Some time ago, I wrote about programmatically controlling which handles are inherited...
Developing more confidence when tracking renames via ReadDirectoryChangesW
15 days ago
A customer was using ReadDirectoryChangesW to monitor the contents of a directory...
When you upgrade your resource strings to Unicode, don’t forget to specify the L prefix
16 days ago
Some time ago, I discussed how the Resource Compiler defaults to CP_ACP...