The Old New Thing

Taxes redux: You can’t open the file until the user tells you to open it

April 15, 2009 Apr 15, 2009 04/15/09

Raymond Chen

One of the so-called taxes of software development on Windows is being respectful of Hierarchical Storage Management. You can't open a file until the user tells you to open it. This rule has consequences for how Explorer extracts information about a file, because what you definitely don't want is for opening a folder full of archived files in...