The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

What are the requirements for the built-in Windows 10 camera-based barcode scanner?

What are the requirements for the built-in Windows 10 camera-based barcode scanner?

Raymond ChenNovember 30, 2020Nov 30, 202011/30/20

Basically, it needs to be able to get a good picture.

Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Miscellany

Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Miscellany

Raymond ChenNovember 27, 2020Nov 27, 202011/27/20

A few other columns.

Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Why is System doing so much stuff?

Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Why is System doing so much stuff?

Raymond ChenNovember 26, 2020Nov 26, 202011/26/20

The System does many things, or at least many things are blamed on it.

Preliminary notes on analyzing Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces

Preliminary notes on analyzing Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces

Raymond ChenNovember 25, 2020Nov 25, 202011/25/20

Deciphering the numbers.

Why does the disk optimizer put boot files at low-numbered sectors?

Why does the disk optimizer put boot files at low-numbered sectors?

Raymond ChenNovember 24, 2020Nov 24, 202011/24/20

Taking advantage of disk geometry.

Virtual desktops are an end-user window management feature, not a programmatic one

Virtual desktops are an end-user window management feature, not a programmatic one

Raymond ChenNovember 23, 2020Nov 23, 202011/23/20

It's for users to organize their windows, not for programs to organize them.

How thread-safe is the Windows Runtime PropertySet object?

How thread-safe is the Windows Runtime PropertySet object?

Raymond ChenNovember 20, 2020Nov 20, 202011/20/20

It's thread-safe as far as it goes, but you may want to go further.

Other uses for the -library flag of the C++/WinRT compiler

Other uses for the -library flag of the C++/WinRT compiler

Raymond ChenNovember 19, 2020Nov 19, 202011/19/20

Injecting a little something extra.

On combining static libraries that implement C++/WinRT activatable objects

On combining static libraries that implement C++/WinRT activatable objects

Raymond ChenNovember 18, 2020Nov 18, 202011/18/20

Separating the shared names, so you can combine them yourself.

One senior executive’s warning about escalating conflicts to upper management

One senior executive’s warning about escalating conflicts to upper management

Raymond ChenNovember 17, 2020Nov 17, 202011/17/20

You're not gonna like what you get.