The Old New Thing

February 4, 2013 - The Old New Thing

Old trace logs in your dreams

February 4, 2013 Feb 4, 2013 02/4/13
Raymond Chen
I dreamed that I was archiving old data. Some came off an old CP/M floppy disc. Another was an IntelliTrace debug log from the 1980's. Back then, IntelliTrace recorded the history onto index cards, which were stored in trays like in a library card catalog. Made jumping back and forth really easy, but setting breakpoints was a pain...

Obtaining the parsing name (and pidl) for a random shell object

February 4, 2013 Feb 4, 2013 02/4/13
Raymond Chen
The parsing name for a shell item is handy, because it lets you regenerate the item later. Actually, the pidl for the shell item is even better, because that is the official way of saving and restoring objects. It's the pidl that gets saved in a shortcut, and since shortcuts can be copied around from machine to machine, pidls must be ...