The Old New Thing

Solutions that require a time machine: Making applications which require compatibility behaviors crash so the developers will fix their bug before they ship

January 31, 2011 Jan 31, 2011 01/31/11

Raymond Chen

A while ago, I mentioned that there are many applications that rely on messages being delivered even if there is nothing to paint because they put business logic inside their handler. As a result, Windows sends them dummy messages. Jerry Pisk opines, Thanks to the Windows team going out of their way not to break poorly written ...