The Old New Thing

Charles Petzold is back with another edition of Programming Windows

May 17, 2012 May 17, 2012 05/17/12

Raymond Chen

Back in the day (and perhaps still true today), Charles Petzold's Programming Windows was the definitive source for learning to program Windows. The book is so old that even I used it to learn Windows programming, back when everything was 16-bit and uphill both ways. The most recent edition is Programming Windows, 5th Edition, which was ...

How to view the stack of threads that were terminated as part of process teardown from the kernel debugger

May 17, 2012 May 17, 2012 05/17/12

Raymond Chen

As we saw some time ago, process shutdown is a multi-phase affair. After you call , all the threads are forcibly terminated. After that's done, each DLL is sent a notification. You may be debugging a problem with handling that suggests that some of those threads were not cleaned up properly. For example, you might assert that a reference ...