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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Bonus operations for C++/WinRT iterators: The IIterable<T>, and C++/WinRT collections

Bonus operations for C++/WinRT iterators: The IIterable<T>, and C++/WinRT collections

October 1st, 2020

Stepping through a collection.

Bonus operations for C++/WinRT iterators: The IIterator<T>

Bonus operations for C++/WinRT iterators: The IIterator<T>

September 30th, 2020

The equivalent of an input iterator.

How did we end up parsing Savvyday 29 Oatmeal 94 as Saturday 29 October 1994?

How did we end up parsing Savvyday 29 Oatmeal 94 as Saturday 29 October 1994?

September 29th, 2020

Unsophisticated pattern matching.

git commit-tree parlor tricks, Part 9: How can I bulk-revert an entire repo to an earlier commit?

git commit-tree parlor tricks, Part 9: How can I bulk-revert an entire repo to an earlier commit?

September 28th, 2020

Take me back to a simpler time.

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.