The Old New Thing

March 25, 2011 - The Old New Thing

Paul Cézanne and Camille Saint-Saëns may have similar-sounding last names, but they are not the same person

March 25, 2011 Mar 25, 2011 03/25/11
Raymond Chen
Next week, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra performs the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony, but the people responsible for the symphony's radio advertisements don't realize that. As the strains of the symphony resound in the background, the announcer proudly announces that tickets are still available for "Cézanne's Organ Symphony." The ...

How do I monitor, or even control, the lifetime of an Explorer window?

March 25, 2011 Mar 25, 2011 03/25/11
Raymond Chen
A customer wanted help with monitoring the lifetime of an Explorer window. We want to launch a copy of Explorer to open a specific folder, then wait until the user closes the folder before continuing. We tried launching a copy of Explorer with the folder on the command line, then doing a on the process handle, but the wait sometimes ...