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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An observation about what people used iPads for in the early days

April 3rd, 2020

Does everything you need, if you also bring an assistant.

Error compiling C++/WinRT runtime class: function does not take N arguments

April 2nd, 2020

You need to cover all the overloads.

Pulling sleight of hand tricks in a security vulnerability report, or maybe it was a prank

April 1st, 2020

Something up my sleeve.

Why am I ignoring my second monitor? A case study in working from home.

March 31st, 2020

Settling into the new routine has its rough spots.

A sneaky way to make sure nobody assigns test failures to your team

March 30th, 2020

Buffer overflow.

Are Windows Runtime asynchronous operations guaranteed to complete?

March 27th, 2020

As much as anything is guaranteed to complete.

If you say that your minimum requirements are the Universal contract, then you need to probe for anything beyond that

March 26th, 2020

Reaching beyond your declaration.

How can I check whether a Windows Runtime object supports a member before I try to use it?

March 25th, 2020

You can sniff at the metadata.

Accessing a member of a Windows Runtime class raises an `InvalidCastException` / throws a `hresult_no_interface`, what does this mean?

March 24th, 2020

It's interfaces under the hood.

Why not just share a single event across all critical section?

March 23rd, 2020

How will you know when the thundering herd has calmed down?