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Thursday, September 30, 2004 7:01 AM

How to host an IContextMenu, part 7 - Invoking the default verb

You have to look at the HMENU that QueryContextMenu populated.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:57 AM

Still more goofy terms of service - restrictions on information disclosure

Continental Airlines OnePass data privacy rules seem unusually onerous.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:55 AM

What does boldface on a menu mean?

It represents the default command.
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Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:20 AM

How to host an IContextMenu, part 6 - Displaying menu help

Displaying help text in the status bar.
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Monday, September 27, 2004 7:47 AM

How to host an IContextMenu, part 5 - Handling menu messages

Allowing context menu handlers to participate in message handling.
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Friday, September 24, 2004 6:10 PM

The unrecognized assistants on those do-it-yourself shows

Nothing on television is what it appears.
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Friday, September 24, 2004 6:09 PM

How to host an IContextMenu, part 4 - Key context

Conveying the keyboard state to the context menu handler.
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Thursday, September 23, 2004 7:01 AM

Penguins do not fall over!

Anecdote about penguins falling over backwards while observing low-flying aircraft not borne out by experiment.
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Thursday, September 23, 2004 7:00 AM

How to host an IContextMenu, part 3 - Invocation location

Conveying the invocation point to the context menu handler.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:00 AM

How to host an IContextMenu, part 2 - Displaying the context menu

Displaying the popup menu and getting the answer.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004 7:01 AM

Pitfalls in handling the WM_CONTEXTMENU message

Covering some subtleties of context menu handling.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004 7:01 AM

Swedes struggle with the meaning of sick leave

Trying to be more like their Norwegian neighbors, perhaps.
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Monday, September 20, 2004 7:00 AM

How to host an IContextMenu, part 1 - Initial foray

Putting together the IContextMenu methods.
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Friday, September 17, 2004 7:00 AM

Why does my mouse/touchpad sometimes go berzerk?

The data stream has gone out of sync.
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Thursday, September 16, 2004 7:00 AM

What happens when you specify RegexOptions.ECMAScript?

The RegexOptions.ECMAScript flag changes the behavior of .NET regular expressions.
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Thursday, September 16, 2004 7:00 AM

A visual history of spam (and virus) email

A graph of incoming spam/virus email activity
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Wednesday, September 15, 2004 7:00 AM

Interlocked operations don't solve everything

They allow for atomic updates, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can skip the critical section.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004 8:10 AM

The x86 architecture is the weirdo

So unlike all the others, yet people think it's the normal one.
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Monday, September 13, 2004 7:00 AM

How does Windows exploit hyperthreading?

Depends which version of Windows.
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Friday, September 10, 2004 7:00 AM

Sometimes the bug isn't apparent until late in the game

One computer game that crashed only after you got to one of the higher levels.
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Friday, September 10, 2004 7:00 AM

Storsjöodjur hunting season will opening soon

Swedish lake monster loses protected status.
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Thursday, September 09, 2004 7:00 AM

Why isn't the original window order always preserved when you undo a Show Desktop?

Because the alternative is worse.
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Wednesday, September 08, 2004 7:00 AM

Why is the page size on ia64 8K?

It's a balance between performance and performance.
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Tuesday, September 07, 2004 6:58 AM

Converting a byte[] to a System.String

'String System.Text.UnicodeEncoding.GetString
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Tuesday, September 07, 2004 6:58 AM

What about Steve?

The Morphology of Steve.
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Monday, September 06, 2004 7:01 AM

The shift key overrides NumLock

It also overrides CapsLock.
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Monday, September 06, 2004 7:01 AM

More dictionaries you didn't realize you needed

Apparently there are a lot of strange dictionaries out there.
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Friday, September 03, 2004 7:00 AM

Even in computing, simultaneity is relative

Special relativity holds for code, too.
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Thursday, September 02, 2004 7:00 AM

Why does Windows keep your BIOS clock on local time?

In a sense, it's a chain of backwards compatibility...
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004 7:00 AM

How to find the Internet Explorer binary

It's all there in the App Paths.
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