September 14, 2012 | The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

Raymond learns about some of the things people do to get banned on Xbox LIVE

Raymond ChenSeptember 14, 2012Sep 14, 201209/14/12

I still enjoy dropping in on Why Was I Banned? every so often, but not being a l33t Xbox haxxor, I don't understand a lot of the terminology. Fortunately, some of my colleagues were kind enough to explain them to me. (And now I'm explaining them to you so that you don't have to look as stupid asking them.) A modded lobby is a pre-game lobby...

IShellFolder::BindToObject is a high-traffic method; don't do any heavy lifting

Raymond ChenSeptember 14, 2012Sep 14, 201209/14/12

A customer observed that once the user visited their shell extension, Explorer ran really slowly. (Actually, it took a while just to get to this point, but I'll skip the early investigations because they aren't relevant to the story.) Some investigation showed that Explorer's tree view was calling into the shell extension, which was in turn ...

The Old New Thing

September 14, 2012 | The Old New Thing

Raymond learns about some of the things people do to get banned on Xbox LIVE

IShellFolder::BindToObject is a high-traffic method; don't do any heavy lifting

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