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Intercepting messages inside Is­Dialog­Message, installing the message filter (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | past | discuss Microspeak: Escrow (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 29 points by ibobev 8 days ago | past | 9 comments Could Write­Process­Memory be made faster by avoiding the intermediate buffer? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 8 days ago | past | discuss Studying compiler error messages closely: Input file paths (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 14 days ago | past What should I do if a wait call reports WAIT_ABANDONED? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 15 days ago | past How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 201 points by ingve 17 days ago | past | 161 comments Why does Windows keep your BIOS clock on local time? (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ryukoposting 24 days ago | past | 1 comment Why did I lose the data even though I called Safe­Array­Add­Ref? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 28 days ago | past How can I retain access to the data in a SAFEARRAY after my method returns? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 28 days ago | past C++ has scope_exit for running code at scope exit (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by firesteelrain 35 days ago | past Faster restart of Windows 95 when you hold the shift key (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 15 points by todsacerdoti 39 days ago | past Clipping the focus item when looking for its on-screen location (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 39 days ago | past Using Active Accessibility to find out where the focus item is (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 39 days ago | past When programs assume the system will never change, episode 4: Stealing strings (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by zdw 43 days ago | past Swapping two blocks of memory that reside inside a larger block, in constant mem (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 52 days ago | past | 1 comment Swapping two blocks of memory that reside inside a larger block, in constant (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 53 days ago | past Understanding and mitigating a stack overflow in our task sequencer (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by mooreds 54 days ago | past Swapping two blocks of memory inside a larger block, in constant memory (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 48 points by paulmooreparks 56 days ago | past | 26 comments Swapping two blocks of memory inside a larger block, in constant memory (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ingve 57 days ago | past How can I detect that the system is running low on memory? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by ibobev 59 days ago | past Can I throw a C++ exception from a structured exception? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 64 points by birdculture 60 days ago | past | 15 comments C++ says “We have try... finally at home” (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 149 points by ibobev 62 days ago | past | 143 comments Why are we worried about memory access semantics? Full barriers are enough? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by signa11 62 days ago | past Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 310 points by montalbano 62 days ago | past | 124 comments Why are we worried about memory access semantics? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by HeliumHydride 63 days ago | past Why is the last letter of my string not making it to the clipboard? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by HeliumHydride 64 days ago | past C++: "We have try...finally at home" (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by HeliumHydride 66 days ago | past | 1 comment Microspeak: North Star – The Old New Thing (2015) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 26 points by rbanffy 66 days ago | past | 10 comments When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 79 points by magnat 66 days ago | past | 35 comments All the other cool languages have try finally. C++: We have try at home (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by macote 66 days ago | past | 1 comment More

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