The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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You have to tell Get- and SetSecurityInfo the object type, you can’t make it guess
It needs to know which provider to give it to.
Funding the Egghead store shopping spree took a little extra legwork
Just ask the boss.
Writing a helper class for generating a particular category of C callback wrappers around C++ methods
Another exercise in C++ template programming.
Thread pool threads are like preschool: Leave things the way you found them
Your mother always told you to clean up behind yourself.
Why does Windows even have Interlocked functions when we have std::atomic?
Well, you have to start somewhere.
Removing the MAX_PATH restriction on paths applies only to paths
The individual file names still retain their existing limits.
Application compatibility for Windows 95 crashed a cash register
Exceeding all reasonable maximums.
Dubious security vulnerability: Tricking a program into running non-elevated
You can do anything, but still within the limits of your authority.
Why does C++ think my class is copy-constructible when it can’t be copy-constructed?
You said that you had a copy constructor, even though it can't be compiled.