The Old New Thing

March 14, 2006 - The Old New Thing

Top ten things to do to make your application a Vista application

March 14, 2006 Mar 14, 2006 03/14/06
Raymond Chen
On MSDN, there's a series of articles on the top ten things to do to make your application a Vista application. The series began last December, and just this month, they covered a topic dear to my heart: Application compatibility. [Update 2pm: If you have feedback about these articles, posting that feedback here won't accomplish much since...

Controlling resource consumption by meting out work items

March 14, 2006 Mar 14, 2006 03/14/06
Raymond Chen
At the PDC, one person came to talk to me for advice on a resource management problem they were having. To simplify, their system generated dozens of work items, each of which required significant resource consumption. For the sake of illustration, let's say that each of the work items was a single-threaded computationally-intensive operation ...