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The perceived type tells you what kind of file it is, for a very general sense of the word "kind".

A customer was debugging some code that calls on a class that's already been registered. In this case, it was registered by another DLL in the same process. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, because each DLL passes its own instance handle to so that there are no name collisions. However, in this case, both DLLs are passing the flag, which m...

We saw some time ago that permission to delete a file is granted either File attributes behave in an analogous way. Permission to read a file's attributes is granted either If you want the file's attributes, you could always get it by reading the directory, because one of the pieces of information you get from is the file attributes. There...

Just an order of magnitude. Or three. Or more.

You don't need to.

COM methods cannot be variadic. Why not? Answer: Because the marshaler doesn't know when to stop. Suppose variadic COM methods were possible. And then you wrote this code: How would COM know how to marshal this function call? In other words, suppose that is a pointer to a proxy that refers to an object in another process. The COM marshaler...

Incremental functionality.

You never crossed the boundary.

That one started from Windows NT.

According to television.