The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

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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Structured binding may be the new hotness, but we’ll always have std::tie

Structured binding may be the new hotness, but we’ll always have std::tie

September 25th, 2020

Sometimes the old things are what you need.

Inside C++/WinRT: How does C++/WinRT represent ABI types?

Inside C++/WinRT: How does C++/WinRT represent ABI types?

September 24th, 2020

Hiding in the internal impl::abi template.

How to get your C++/WinRT asynchronous operations to respond more quickly to cancellation, part 3

How to get your C++/WinRT asynchronous operations to respond more quickly to cancellation, part 3

September 23rd, 2020

Automatic cancellation propagation is here.

Why does the Disk Cleanup tool’s Windows Update Cleanup take so long and consume so much CPU?

Why does the Disk Cleanup tool’s Windows Update Cleanup take so long and consume so much CPU?

September 22nd, 2020

It's doing some real work.

Git commit-tree parlor tricks, Part 8: I just rebased my branch, but now I realize that I should have merged

Git commit-tree parlor tricks, Part 8: I just rebased my branch, but now I realize that I should have merged

September 21st, 2020

You can rewrite the tree while preserving files.

I get a weird error about no matching function when I try to use winrt::capture

I get a weird error about no matching function when I try to use winrt::capture

September 18th, 2020

The confusing error message strikes again.

The C++/WinRT “capture” function helps you interoperate with the COM ABI world

The C++/WinRT “capture” function helps you interoperate with the COM ABI world

September 17th, 2020

Simplifying a common COM pattern.

Why did I lose the ability to co_await a std::future and concurrency::task?

Why did I lose the ability to co_await a std::future and concurrency::task?

September 16th, 2020

Early moves in a direction that didn't pan out.

Embarrassing product names averted: Windows Embedded POS and Windows 10 for Advanced PCs

Embarrassing product names averted: Windows Embedded POS and Windows 10 for Advanced PCs

September 15th, 2020

If you see something, say something.

What’s up with error C4838: a WinRT type cannot be a member of a union, and how can I work around it?

What’s up with error C4838: a WinRT type cannot be a member of a union, and how can I work around it?

September 14th, 2020

A restriction left over from C++03.