The Old New Thing

The focus rectangle says, “I’m not orange. I’m just drawn that way.”

Raymond Chen November 2, 2021 Nov 2, 2021 11/2/21

How does Draw­Focus­Rect draw the focus rectangle?

Why do all this coroutine stuff if you can just use std::future?

Raymond Chen November 1, 2021 Nov 1, 2021 11/1/21

Escape from PPL.

Giving a single object multiple COM identities, part 4

Raymond Chen October 29, 2021 Oct 29, 2021 10/29/21

Simplifying the pattern.

Giving a single object multiple COM identities, part 3

Raymond Chen October 28, 2021 Oct 28, 2021 10/28/21

Returning to the scene of the crime.

Giving a single object multiple COM identities, part 2

Raymond Chen October 27, 2021 Oct 27, 2021 10/27/21

Trying to develop a slightly more efficient multi-headed snake.

Giving a single object multiple COM identities, part 1

Raymond Chen October 26, 2021 Oct 26, 2021 10/26/21

Like a multi-headed snake.

A very brief introduction to patterns for implementing a COM object that hands out references to itself

Raymond Chen October 25, 2021 Oct 25, 2021 10/25/21

We'll look at many choices, but focus on one.

Renaming a file is a multi-step process, only one of which is changing the name of the file

Raymond Chen October 22, 2021 Oct 22, 2021 10/22/21

If you're going to swoop in, make sure to swoop in carefully.

Why isn’t MapDialogRect mapping dialog rectangles?

Raymond Chen October 21, 2021 Oct 21, 2021 10/21/21

Maybe you don't have a dialog.

My code crashed when I asked WIL to convert an exception to an HRESULT, did I throw an improper exception type?

Raymond Chen October 20, 2021 Oct 20, 2021 10/20/21

Digging into the failure more closely.