Nov 30, 2020 Post comments count2 Post likes count1 What are the requirements for the built-in Windows 10 camera-based barcode scanner? Raymond Chen Basically, it needs to be able to get a good picture.
Nov 27, 2020 Post comments count7 Post likes count1 Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Miscellany Raymond Chen A few other columns.
Nov 26, 2020 Post comments count3 Post likes count1 Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Why is System doing so much stuff? Raymond Chen The System does many things, or at least many things are blamed on it.
Nov 25, 2020 Post comments count4 Post likes count1 Preliminary notes on analyzing Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces Raymond Chen Deciphering the numbers.
Nov 24, 2020 Post comments count15 Post likes count2 Why does the disk optimizer put boot files at low-numbered sectors? Raymond Chen Taking advantage of disk geometry.
Nov 23, 2020 Post comments count10 Post likes count1 Virtual desktops are an end-user window management feature, not a programmatic one Raymond Chen It's for users to organize their windows, not for programs to organize them.
Nov 20, 2020 Post comments count1 Post likes count1 How thread-safe is the Windows Runtime PropertySet object? Raymond Chen It's thread-safe as far as it goes, but you may want to go further.
Nov 19, 2020 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 Other uses for the -library flag of the C++/WinRT compiler Raymond Chen Injecting a little something extra.
Nov 18, 2020 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 On combining static libraries that implement C++/WinRT activatable objects Raymond Chen Separating the shared names, so you can combine them yourself.
Nov 17, 2020 Post comments count16 Post likes count1 One senior executive’s warning about escalating conflicts to upper management Raymond Chen You're not gonna like what you get.