The Old New Thing

Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.

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Async-Async revisited: What about cancellation?
Feb 12, 2025
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Async-Async revisited: What about cancellation?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Even the cancellation is async.

Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS can do graphics?
Feb 11, 2025
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Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS can do graphics?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Oh look what you just made there.

How does Explorer find the “first” icon in a file
Feb 10, 2025
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How does Explorer find the “first” icon in a file

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

It enumerates them and takes the first one, so this is really a question about enumeration.

Using alternate locales to get more interesting case mapping than the C
Feb 7, 2025
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Using alternate locales to get more interesting case mapping than the C

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Looking for something better.

The default C locale is not a very interesting one
Feb 6, 2025
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The default C locale is not a very interesting one

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

It barely understands anything.

On exactly when XAML bindings are evaluated if an element is not yet loaded
Feb 5, 2025
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On exactly when XAML bindings are evaluated if an element is not yet loaded

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

It depends on which abstraction you prefer.

The original name for Flexible Single Master Operations in Active Directory
Feb 4, 2025
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The original name for Flexible Single Master Operations in Active Directory

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Not that kind of F-word.

On trying to log an exception as it leaves your scope
Feb 3, 2025
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On trying to log an exception as it leaves your scope

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

You can't watch it from an object on the outside.

Creating a generic insertion iterator, part 2
Jan 31, 2025
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Creating a generic insertion iterator, part 2

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Satisfying the iterator requirements, perhaps with a little cheating.