The Old New Thing

Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.

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Nov 19, 2018
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How do I suppress the “Did you mean to switch apps?” warning message from my XAML WebView control?

Raymond Chen

It will ask you what to do, and you can tell it to do nothing.

Nov 16, 2018
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The Moncler 1 Pierpaolo Piccioli, your high fashion for the elegant parties that take place in a walk-in freezer

Raymond Chen

I'm sure it looks better after you unpack it from the bubble wrap.

Nov 16, 2018
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Closing the race window between creating a suspended process and putting it in a job

Raymond Chen

Start it there from the beginning.

Nov 15, 2018
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Songs with every other beat removed, how to make your own!

Raymond Chen

Sounds familiar, but oddly wrong.

Nov 15, 2018
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How do I revert a control back to its default theme?

Raymond Chen

The special signal.

Nov 14, 2018
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What’s the point of passing a never-signaled event to MsgWaitForMultipleObjects?

Raymond Chen

It's a placeholder for something that didn't need a placeholder.

Nov 13, 2018
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Saying good-bye to the original Microsoft Redmond campus

Raymond Chen

The home of many memories, perhaps not all good ones.

Nov 12, 2018
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The case of the System process that consumed a lot of CPU

Raymond Chen

Let's look at the performance trace.

Nov 9, 2018
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Gotchas when using linker sections to arrange data, part 2

Raymond Chen

An unexpected null could throw the whole thing out of alignment.