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The program “G” is preventing you from shutting down
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If you suppress GDI+ background thread, then you are expected to pump messages yourself
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Did you hear that story about Bill Gates?: A PR person’s view
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Why does FormatMessage
say that %0
terminates the message without a trailing newline? Is it secretly adding newlines?
FormatMessage
that's adding the newline.
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If you want to terminate on an unexpected exception, then don’t sniff at every exception; just let the process terminate
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What’s the difference between the hotkeys F6 and Alt+F6?
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When I tell the file or folder picker that I want only file system files and folders, why does it still show virtual folders?
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