The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Jul 8, 2025
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A walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3

Don't get lost on your walk down memory lane.

Jul 7, 2025
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Dubious security vulnerability: If I perform this complex series of manual steps, I can crash a program I am running

What security boundary did you cross?

Jul 4, 2025
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Why doesn’t LVIF_INDENT
work without an image list?

Its original client had an image list.

Jul 3, 2025
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German language cheat sheet: On changing quantities

How much there is, and how is it changing.

Jul 3, 2025
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If the FormatMessage
function fails, and I requested that it allocate a buffer, do I have to free the buffer?

There was no buffer returned, so there's nothing to free anyway.

Jul 2, 2025
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Unintended yet somehow entirely expected consequences of marking a COM interface as local

If it's local-only, then it can't be remote.

Jul 1, 2025
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The sizzle reel that says things that nobody understands

Failing to understand your audience.

Jun 30, 2025
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2025 mid-year link clearance

Halfway there.

Jun 30, 2025
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Embracing the power of the empty set in API design: Requesting zero items

It's okay to ask for nothing. You get nothing.