Windows Runtime asynchronous operations can fail in two different ways, so make sure you get them both Raymond ChenShow moreCLR Tasks, PPL tasks, JavaScript Promises, and Windows Run...

How to recognize different types of sentinel timestamps from quite a long way away Raymond ChenShow moreSome time ago, I discussed several timestamp formats you might run into. Today we’ll...

whether there is a way to set a different wallpaper on each monitor, or whether it is some sort of trick. It’s some sort of trick. And it’s a trick because it’s not something that the window manager fol...

I understand that Terminal Server machines are different from your average consumer machine, and I know what I’m doing. One of those compatibility behaviors is to make theGet­Windows­Direc...

the Windows x64 calling conventions, but explained that their code needs to run on multiple x64 operating systems, and since each operating system has different calling conventions, they adhere to no...

The code shows two different approaches to getting the information. The first approach is to use theGetExtendedItem()method that Source Control Explorer uses to get much of its information (SCE al...

James Manningrecently put together a nice post on configuring different diff and merge tools, making it easier to properly configure the tool of your choice. This is most useful for merge, where for v1 a...

Does the thread pool thread run with different access privileges from the main thread? We verified that the handle is the same in the main thread and in the callback. It is our understanding thatDuplica...