The Old New Thing

Pulling sleight of hand tricks in a security vulnerability report, episode 2

June 7, 2023 Jun 7, 2023 06/7/23

Raymond Chen

I see what you did there.

How can I make WiFi passwords per-user rather than per-system?

June 6, 2023 Jun 6, 2023 06/6/23

Raymond Chen

A little-known system configuration setting.

It’s great that you provide operator overloads, but it’s also nice to have names

June 5, 2023 Jun 5, 2023 06/5/23

Raymond Chen

Avoiding the need to invoke the operator explicitly as a specialized template, among other things.

C++/WinRT event handlers that are lambdas with weak pointers to the parent class, part 3

June 2, 2023 Jun 2, 2023 06/2/23

Raymond Chen

Extending to std::weak_ptr.

C++/WinRT event handlers that are lambdas with weak pointers to the parent class, part 2

June 1, 2023 Jun 1, 2023 06/1/23

Raymond Chen

Working out the boilerplate.

C++/WinRT event handlers that are lambdas with weak pointers to the parent class, part 1

May 31, 2023 May 31, 2023 05/31/23

Raymond Chen

Assessing the state of affairs.

How do I change the directory Windows uses for user profiles? revisited

May 30, 2023 May 30, 2023 05/30/23

Raymond Chen

You can still do it, but it's not really supported.

On writing functions that accept any specialization of a C++ template type

May 29, 2023 May 29, 2023 05/29/23

Raymond Chen

There are the obvious arguments, the non-obvious arguments, and the invisible arguments.

Getting a strong reference from the this pointer too late

May 26, 2023 May 26, 2023 05/26/23

Raymond Chen

Once destruction begins, strong references mean nothing.

How can I trigger a recalc of the mouse cursor after I changed some of my internal application state?, follow-up

May 25, 2023 May 25, 2023 05/25/23

Raymond Chen

You still need to filter to your window, so you don't mess up another window on the same thread.