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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My summer vacation: The Tower of London and Kensington Palace

November 29th, 2019

Doing the admissions price math.

Using contexts to return to a COM apartment later

November 29th, 2019

You can go back home again.

How do you get into a context via `IContextCallback::ContextCallback`?

November 28th, 2019

Piggybacking on the internal infrastructure.

Setting up private COM contexts to allow yourself to unload cleanly

November 27th, 2019

Your private little enclave.

Yo dawg, I hear you like COM apartments, so I put a COM apartment in your COM apartment so you can COM apartment while you COM apartment

November 26th, 2019

Or maybe this is subletting? Airbnb for COM apartments?

A slightly less brief introduction to COM apartments (but it’s still brief)

November 25th, 2019

Managing the multithreading.

My summer vacation: Speaking German (wait, what?)

November 22nd, 2019

But you went to England and France.

How do I make a clone of a Windows Runtime vector in C++/WinRT?

November 22nd, 2019

You copy it into your own vector, but make sure you copy what you think you're copying.

Why does the Alpha AXP predict a coroutine transfer the way it does?

November 21st, 2019

Working out the possibilities.

The case of the `UuidCreateSequential` that didn’t use the MAC address

November 20th, 2019

If you want to use it, make sure it's good.