August 15th, 2003

Answer to exercise

The WM_SIZING handler intercepts only interactive resizing. If the user right-clicks the taskbar and selects “Cascade Windows”, this resizes the window directly without going through the interactive WM_SIZING step

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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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