The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Finding a duplicated item in an array of N integers in the range 1 to N − 1
Taking advantage of special characteristics of the array.
How do you add or remove a handle from an active WaitForMultipleObjects?, part 2
Waiting for the waiting thread to acknowledge the change.
How do you add or remove a handle from an active WaitForMultipleObjects?
You can't, but you can cooperate with the other thread.
How do you add or remove a handle from an active MsgWaitForMultipleObjects?
You can't, but you can arrange for the waiter to do it for you.
Were there any Windows 3.1 programs that were so incompatible with Windows 95 that there was no point trying to patch them?
The permanently ineligible list.
Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Illegal use of -> when there is no -> in sight
If the compiler is complaining about things you didn't write, find out who wrote them.
How can I use ReadDirectoryChangesW to know when someone is copying a file out of the directory?
File copying is not a fundamental operation, nor is it even detectable at the file system layer.
Why doesn’t the system let you declare your own messages to have the same semantics as WM_COPYDATA ?
Tempting but misleading.
The cover of C++: The Programming Language raises questions not answered by the cover
What are we reading about here?
