How does Windows decide whether your computer has limited or full Internet access? November 15, 2022 Nov 15, 2022 11/15/22 Raymond Chen Looking for special servers.
C++ constexpr parlor tricks: How can I obtain the length of a string at compile time? November 14, 2022 Nov 14, 2022 11/14/22 Raymond Chen The constexpr'ification of strlen.
If I issue multiple overlapped I/O requests against the same region of a file, will they execute in the order I issued them? November 11, 2022 Nov 11, 2022 11/11/22 Raymond Chen Overlapped I/O refers to temporal overlap, and that includes completion out of order.
On the dangers of giving a product feature the name “new” November 10, 2022 Nov 10, 2022 11/10/22 Raymond Chen It may be new today, but it won't be new tomorrow.
Why don’t Windows functions begin with a pointless MOV EDI,EDI instruction on x86-64? November 9, 2022 Nov 9, 2022 11/9/22 Raymond Chen Applying the hot-patch in a different way.
Why is there a system sound called Asterisk? What sound does an Asterisk make anyway? November 8, 2022 Nov 8, 2022 11/8/22 Raymond Chen It's to accompany the asterisk, back when we had an asterisk.
My niece is just here for the food November 7, 2022 Nov 7, 2022 11/7/22 Raymond Chen The important part of the trip.
In the debugger, how can I get from a projected type back to the C++/WinRT implementation? November 7, 2022 Nov 7, 2022 11/7/22 Raymond Chen Look behind you.
Why am I getting a RPC_E_WRONG_THREAD exception when I’m on the right thread? November 4, 2022 Nov 4, 2022 11/4/22 Raymond Chen It's the wrong thread from XAML's point of view.
How does the dialog manager calculate the average width of a character? November 3, 2022 Nov 3, 2022 11/3/22 Raymond Chen It's a simple formula, perhaps too simple.