The Old New Thing

Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.

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Nov 29, 2023
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Why does the Windows Portable Executable (PE) format have separate tables for import names and import addresses?, part 1

Raymond Chen

Even though their lifetimes don't overlap, you sometimes need to go back in time.

Nov 28, 2023
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A reported vulnerability about getting paid apps for free is really about paying for free apps

Raymond Chen

Try shopping around.

Nov 27, 2023
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In Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, what is a “grabber”?

Raymond Chen

It grabbed your MS-DOS screen and put it into a window.

Nov 24, 2023
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On harmful overuse of std::move

Raymond Chen

Initial excitement leads to overuse.

Nov 23, 2023
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On the need to keep most event sources alive if you want them to raise events

Raymond Chen

You can't receive a notification from something that doesn't exist.

Nov 22, 2023
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How can I convert a Windows Runtime Software­Bitmap to a WIC bitmap?

Raymond Chen

The reverse of <CODE>ISoftware­Bitmap­Native­Factory::<WBR>Create­From­WIC­Bitmap</CODE>.

Nov 21, 2023
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Microspeak revisited: Line of sight

Raymond Chen

A fancy way of saying unimpeded network connectivity.

Nov 20, 2023
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If you’re going to crash on an unhandled exception, you may as well do it sooner rather than later

Raymond Chen

Avoiding the problem discovered by the case of the invalid argument exception from a method that takes no arguments.

Nov 17, 2023
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The theory behind the IHttpFilter interface

Raymond Chen

Layering features on top of each other.

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