Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 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 occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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I called Create­Environment­Block with a process’s token, but I didn’t get that process’s environment

March 28th, 2024
That's not what the Create­Environment­Block function does.

Some choices for encrypting data so that it can be decrypted only by the same user or computer

March 27th, 2024
There's your classic, and there's some newfangled stuff.

Dubious security vulnerability: Manual operations can cause a program to hang

March 26th, 2024
You did this to yourself.

Why isn’t C++ using my default parameter to deduce a template type?

March 25th, 2024
Trying to have it both ways.

Why does my thread get a broken string as its initial parameter?

March 22nd, 2024
It got converted too late.

Using the Display­Information class from a desktop Win32 application, part 2

March 21st, 2024
Completing the prerequisites.

Using the Display­Information class from a desktop Win32 application, part 1

March 20th, 2024
A little interop music.

How well does C++/WinRT com_ptr support class template argument deduction (CTAD)?

March 19th, 2024
It doesn't even try, and probably doesn't want you to do it.

How well does wil com_ptr support class template argument deduction (CTAD)?

March 18th, 2024
Falling into a hole in the C++ language, not filled in until C++20.

How well does WRL ComPtr support class template argument deduction (CTAD)?

March 15th, 2024
It tries too hard and accidentally breaks CTAD.