Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 25 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He currently appears regularly on MSDN Channel 9’s One Dev Minute channel in the One Dev Question video series.

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How should I create controls on my dialog box that has a tab control?

October 15th, 2019

They are siblings of the tab control, not children.

Rugby: The rules for the casual viewer

October 14th, 2019

What you need to know as an observer.

A common mistake when you try to create a C++ class that wraps a window procedure: Saving the window handle too late

October 14th, 2019

You need it before then.

Fibers aren’t useful for much any more; there’s just one corner of it that remains useful for a reason unrelated to fibers

October 11th, 2019

A better way to clean up.

My summer vacation: London public transportation

October 10th, 2019

It's easy until you try to leave town.

Why are timer IDs and dialog control IDs 64-bit values on 64-bit Windows? Did you really expect people to create more than 4 billion timers or dialog controls?

October 10th, 2019

Anywhere it's possible to put a pointer, somebody will try to put a pointer.

Kabaddi: The rules for the casual viewer

October 9th, 2019

What you need to know as an observer.

A window can’t have two timers with the same ID, so how do I assign an ID that nobody else is using?

October 9th, 2019

A pointer can be used like an ID.

Auctioning off the privilege of initiating the destruction of the Microsoft old campus

October 8th, 2019

Emerging victorious in the bidding war.

Why does my string consist of this Korean character repeated over and over?

October 7th, 2019

Decode that character to its code point.