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Perhaps not a recommended usage for an emergency power outlet
about 5 hours ago
It is not uncommon for Microsoft employees who are aficionados of arcade...
There is a std::chrono::high_resolution_clock, but no low_resolution_clock
1 day ago
The C++ standard provides a std::chrono::high_resolution_clock which provides the implementation’s clock with...
Detecting and reporting all unhandled C++ exceptions as well as all unhandled structured exceptions
4 days ago
Last time, attempted to intercept the ways that a C++ program could...
Our first attempt to detect and report all unhandled C++ exceptions as well as all unhandled structured exceptions
5 days ago
Last time, we saw that installing an unhandled structured exception filter prevents...
When I install an unhandled structured exception filter, why doesn’t std::terminate get called?
6 days ago
For diagnostic and reliability purposes, a customer wanted to detect and report...
A walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3
7 days ago
I don’t know why, but there is a Matterport walkthrough of the...
Dubious security vulnerability: If I perform this complex series of manual steps, I can crash a program I am running
8 days ago
A security vulnerability report arrived that went roughly like this In Program...
Why doesn’t LVIF_INDENT work without an image list?
11 days ago
The LVIF_INDENT property of the Win32 classic listview control lets you indent...
German language cheat sheet: On changing quantities
12 days ago
Somehow, I must have missed out on learning phrases of changes in...
If the FormatMessage function fails, and I requested that it allocate a buffer, do I have to free the buffer?
12 days ago
A customer called the FormatMessage function with the FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER flag, and they...
Unintended yet somehow entirely expected consequences of marking a COM interface as local
13 days ago
A customer was adding an interface to their out-of-process COM server. They...
The sizzle reel that says things that nobody understands
14 days ago
At the end of project milestones, some organizations have a tradition of...