Don’t use global state to manage a local problem

Raymond ChenDecember 11, 2008Dec 11, 200812/11/08

We've seen a few instances where people have used a global setting to solve a local problem. For example, people who use the LockWindowUpdate function to prevent a window from redrawing, toggle a global setting to see what its value is, or who change the system time zone as part of an internal calculation. To this, I'll add as an example a ...