What are the requirements for the built-in Windows 10 camera-based barcode scanner? November 30, 2020 Nov 30, 2020 11/30/20 Raymond Chen Basically, it needs to be able to get a good picture.
Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Miscellany November 27, 2020 Nov 27, 2020 11/27/20 Raymond Chen A few other columns.
Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Why is System doing so much stuff? November 26, 2020 Nov 26, 2020 11/26/20 Raymond Chen 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 November 25, 2020 Nov 25, 2020 11/25/20 Raymond Chen Deciphering the numbers.
Why does the disk optimizer put boot files at low-numbered sectors? November 24, 2020 Nov 24, 2020 11/24/20 Raymond Chen Taking advantage of disk geometry.
Virtual desktops are an end-user window management feature, not a programmatic one November 23, 2020 Nov 23, 2020 11/23/20 Raymond Chen It's for users to organize their windows, not for programs to organize them.
How thread-safe is the Windows Runtime PropertySet object? November 20, 2020 Nov 20, 2020 11/20/20 Raymond Chen 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 November 19, 2020 Nov 19, 2020 11/19/20 Raymond Chen Injecting a little something extra.
On combining static libraries that implement C++/WinRT activatable objects November 18, 2020 Nov 18, 2020 11/18/20 Raymond Chen Separating the shared names, so you can combine them yourself.
One senior executive’s warning about escalating conflicts to upper management November 17, 2020 Nov 17, 2020 11/17/20 Raymond Chen You're not gonna like what you get.