{"id":13383,"date":"2010-07-20T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/07\/20\/suggestion-box-4\/"},"modified":"2010-07-20T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T07:00:01","slug":"suggestion-box-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100720-01\/?p=13383","title":{"rendered":"Suggestion Box 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The topic backlog from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/pages\/407234.aspx\"> Suggestion Box&nbsp;3<\/a> has nearly cleared out, and I&#8217;ve actually been enjoying not having to write up a reply every Monday for the past several months, but all good things must come to an end, and so, without much fanfare, we now have Suggestion Box&nbsp;4.\n Remember, the suggestion box is for suggestions for future topics. It isn&#8217;t for developer support, bug reports, or ranting. Topics I&#8217;m inclined to cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows history (particularly the Windows&nbsp;95 era). <\/li>\n<li>Windows user interface programming in Win32,     and shell programming in particular. <\/li>\n<li>General programming topics (selectively). <\/li>\n<li>Issues of general interest. <\/li>\n<li>My personal hobbies. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Topics I am not inclined to cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The blog software itself.     You can visit the     <a href=\"http:\/\/communityserver.org\/\">Community Server home page<\/a>     and cruise their support forums. <\/li>\n<li>Internet Explorer.     You can try     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\">the IE folks<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Visual Studio. You can try one of the Visual Studio blogs. <\/li>\n<li>Managed code. This is not a .NET blog.     I do not work on .NET technologies.     As far as .NET is concerned, I&#8217;m just another programmer like you.     Occasionally I touch a .NET-related topic     (including the annual &#8220;CLR Week&#8221;),     but I do not bring any inside expertise to the subject. <\/li>\n<li>Non-software Microsoft topics, such as product support policies,     marketing tactics, jobs and careers, legal issues. <\/li>\n<li>Microsoft software that isn&#8217;t Windows. (Exchange, Office, &#8230;) <\/li>\n<li>Windows topics outside user interface programming.     (Plug and Play, Terminal Services, Windows Messenger,     Outlook Express, SQL, IIS, remoting, SOA&#8230;) <\/li>\n<li>User interface programming in anything other than Win32.     (Because I know nothing about it.) <\/li>\n<li>Debugging a specific problem. (Not of general interest.) <\/li>\n<li>Predictions for the future. (What&#8217;s the title of this blog again?) <\/li>\n<li>Participation in Internet memes. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Selected products at Microsoft participate in the <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/\">Connect<\/a> program, and many more have official blogs.\n Suggestions should be between two and four sentences in length. Think of it as an elevator pitch: You have three seconds to get your point across. Please also search the Web site first because your suggestion may have already been covered. (Possibly as a suggestion that was submitted to an earlier Suggestion Box that was not accepted.) And remember, questions aren&#8217;t suggestions.<\/p>\n<p> The Suggestion Box will be open for only two weeks, and I will be much more selective about which one I choose to accept than in previous go-rounds. I&#8217;ll answer one every Monday of 2012 (minus holidays and special events such as CLR Week), and once the end of the year is reached, that&#8217;s the end of Suggestion Box&nbsp;4. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The topic backlog from Suggestion Box&nbsp;3 has nearly cleared out, and I&#8217;ve actually been enjoying not having to write up a reply every Monday for the past several months, but all good things must come to an end, and so, without much fanfare, we now have Suggestion Box&nbsp;4. 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