The Old New Thing

In Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, what is a “grabber”?

November 27, 2023 Nov 27, 2023 11/27/23

Raymond Chen

It grabbed your MS-DOS screen and put it into a window.

On harmful overuse of std::move

November 24, 2023 Nov 24, 2023 11/24/23

Raymond Chen

Initial excitement leads to overuse.

On the need to keep most event sources alive if you want them to raise events

November 23, 2023 Nov 23, 2023 11/23/23

Raymond Chen

You can't receive a notification from something that doesn't exist.

How can I convert a Windows Runtime Software­Bitmap to a WIC bitmap?

November 22, 2023 Nov 22, 2023 11/22/23

Raymond Chen

The reverse of ISoftware­Bitmap­Native­Factory::Create­From­WIC­Bitmap.

Microspeak revisited: Line of sight

November 21, 2023 Nov 21, 2023 11/21/23

Raymond Chen

A fancy way of saying unimpeded network connectivity.

If you’re going to crash on an unhandled exception, you may as well do it sooner rather than later

November 20, 2023 Nov 20, 2023 11/20/23

Raymond Chen

Avoiding the problem discovered by the case of the invalid argument exception from a method that takes no arguments.

The theory behind the IHttpFilter interface

November 17, 2023 Nov 17, 2023 11/17/23

Raymond Chen

Layering features on top of each other.

What happened to the custom exception description I threw from a C++/WinRT IAsyncAction?

November 16, 2023 Nov 16, 2023 11/16/23

Raymond Chen

The description is just a courtesy and is not part of the API contract.

Why does calling a coroutine allocate a lot of stack space even though the coroutine frame is on the heap?

November 15, 2023 Nov 15, 2023 11/15/23

Raymond Chen

Heap elision optimization kicks in, and doesn't kick out.

Starting on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Running a program that leaks memory

November 14, 2023 Nov 14, 2023 11/14/23

Raymond Chen

There are a lot of things you can do to consume memory.