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Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Exception-safety, the invisible bug.
The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 6 appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Making sure to use the non-agile delegate non-agile-ly.
The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 5 appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Optimizing the context check.
The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 4 appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
The object that actively refuses to be marshaled.
The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Short-circuiting the easiest case.
The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
The easy case is easy.
The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
It's fixed, but the fix isn't getting there.
The post Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for so long? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Inferring the code's history.
The post Speculating on how the buggy control panel extension truncated a value that it had right in front of it appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Watching the bits disappear.
The post The case of the invalid function pointer when shutting down the display control panel appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Please, tell me more.
The post Microspeak: Double-click and drill down appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Guard pages all the way down?
The post Why don’t we just make the entire stack out of guard pages? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Decoding where those integer came from.
The post The case of the mysterious changes to integers when there shouldn’t have been any code generation effect appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
You need to rebuild everything that was dependent on the change.
The post I’ve decoded a <CODE>#pragma detect_mismatch</CODE> error and fixed the mismatch, but I still get the error appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
A two-in-one package.
The post The other kind of control flow guard check: The combined validate and call appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
It used some heuristics.
The post How did Windows 95 decide that a setup program ran? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
You can't change your mind, but you can do it a different way.
The post I opened a file with <CODE>FILE_<WBR>FLAG_<WBR>DELETE_<WBR>ON_<WBR>CLOSE</CODE>, but now I changed my mind appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Contextual clues.
The post How did we conclude that <TT>CcNamespace.dll</TT> was the ringleader of a group of DLLs that unloaded prematurely? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Oops, I didn't realize that I was still doing that.
The post The case of the thread executing from an unloaded third-party DLL appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Unlocking the door from the inside.
The post It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Changing administrative settings appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Made it to another midpoint.
The post 2026 mid-year link clearance appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Finding an illicit place to hide data.
The post A compatibility note on the abuse of Windows window class extra bytes appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
The intended usage is encoded in the prefix.
The post The evolution of window and class extra bytes in Windows appeared first on The Old New Thing.
