{"id":16273,"date":"2009-10-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/10\/26\/yes-theres-a-new-desktop-window-manager-but-no-i-dont-know-any-more-about-it-than-you-do\/"},"modified":"2009-10-26T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T07:00:00","slug":"yes-theres-a-new-desktop-window-manager-but-no-i-dont-know-any-more-about-it-than-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20091026-00\/?p=16273","title":{"rendered":"Yes, there&#039;s a new desktop window manager, but no, I don&#039;t know any more about it than you do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.werkema.com\/\">Sean W.<\/a> requests, via the suggestion box, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/pages\/407234.aspx#798331\">an in-depth discussion of the use of the shell&#8217;s new Desktop Window Manager (Dwm*) functions in Win32<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> The desktop window manager is not actually part of the shell. It operates at the window manager level. (Notice that DWM is active even when Explorer isn&#8217;t running.) You probably should have posted your suggestion to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/greg_schechter\/archive\/2006\/03\/25\/561167.aspx\"> Greg Schechter&#8217;s request for DWM topics<\/a> which was not too old at the time you posted your topic suggestion. But then again, &#8220;Best practices for applications under the DWM&#8221; was on his list of future topics, so it looks like what you wanted was already on his to-do list. I don&#8217;t know whether he followed up on his own to-do list, though. If not, you can always consult the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/aa969536(VS.85).aspx\"> Performance Considerations and Best Practices (for using DWM)<\/a> topic in MSDN. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean W. requests, via the suggestion box, &#8220;an in-depth discussion of the use of the shell&#8217;s new Desktop Window Manager (Dwm*) functions in Win32.&#8221; The desktop window manager is not actually part of the shell. It operates at the window manager level. (Notice that DWM is active even when Explorer isn&#8217;t running.) You probably should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-16273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Sean W. requests, via the suggestion box, &#8220;an in-depth discussion of the use of the shell&#8217;s new Desktop Window Manager (Dwm*) functions in Win32.&#8221; The desktop window manager is not actually part of the shell. It operates at the window manager level. (Notice that DWM is active even when Explorer isn&#8217;t running.) You probably should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}