The Old New Thing

Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Aug 18, 2005

Let’s just make up some dollar values and print them as fact

Everybody is going nuts over a patent decision regarding the iPod interface, but that's not what I'm writing about (so don't ask me for my opinion). Rather, I'...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Aug 17, 2005

What I’ll be doing at this year’s PDC

I will be heading down to Los Angeles the Friday before the PDC in order to visit friends and relatives and to check out the King Tut exhibit at the Los ...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Aug 17, 2005

Why is processor affinity inherited by child processes?

Consider why a typical program launches child processes. (Shell programs like Explorer aren't typical.) It's because the task at hand is being broken down into ...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Aug 16, 2005

When people ask for security holes as features: Silent install of uncertified drivers

Probably the single greatest source of bluescreen crashes in Windows XP is buggy device drivers. Since drivers run in kernel mode, there is no higher ...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Aug 15, 2005

On being attacked by a sidewalk

Yesterday, I was attacked by a sidewalk. I was cycling from work to a friend's house for dinner and was northbound in the shoulder on 172nd Ave NE ...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Aug 15, 2005

The poor man’s way of identifying memory leaks

There is a variety of tools available for identifying resource leaks, but there's one method that requires no tools or special compiler switches or support ...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Aug 12, 2005

Adding a lookup control to the dictionary: Searching Pinyin

Finally we start searching. For now, the search algorithm is going to be very simple: The string you type into the edit control will be treated as the start of...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Aug 11, 2005

Whatever you do, don’t ask for coffee

Heather Hamilton makes an odd discovery on her flight to Seattle...

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Aug 11, 2005

Adding a lookup control to the dictionary: Just getting it on the screen

When we last left the dictionary project, we were able to display the dictionary entries but hadn't yet gotten around to searching it. Today, we'll place the ...

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