The Old New Thing

June 22, 2005 - The Old New Thing

I'll see (some of) you in Los Angeles in September

June 22, 2005 Jun 22, 2005 06/22/05
Raymond Chen
Jeremy Mazner has asked me to put together a 400-level session at this year's PDC. I came up with the title "Five(ish) things every Win32 developer should know (but likely doesn't)". Of course, now I have to think of five things! Here are some ideas I've been kicking around. Would you go to a talk that covered these topics? If not, what ...

Why does the Run dialog autocorrect but not the Run key?

June 22, 2005 Jun 22, 2005 06/22/05
Raymond Chen
In an earlier comment, Aswin Gunawan asked why the Run dialog does autocorrection but not the Run key? One is a programmatic interface and the other is an end-user control. End users are not expected to be understand how computers do things. They want, and even expect, the computer to help them out with what they're typing. This means spell...