{"id":31643,"date":"2006-04-05T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/04\/05\/user-and-gdi-compatibility-in-windows-vista\/"},"modified":"2006-04-05T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T10:00:59","slug":"user-and-gdi-compatibility-in-windows-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060405-59\/?p=31643","title":{"rendered":"USER and GDI compatibility in Windows Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/nickkramer\/\"> Nick Kramer<\/a> who works over on WPF has the first of what will be a series of articles on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/nickkramer\/archive\/2006\/04\/04\/567769.aspx\"> USER and GDI compatibility in Windows Vista<\/a>. The changes to tighten security, improve support for East Asian languages, and take the desktop to a new level with the Desktop Window Manager (among others) make for quite an interesting compatibility risk list.\n And since I mentioned the DWM, you would do well to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/greg_schechter\/\"> Greg Schechter<\/a> who <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/greg_schechter\/archive\/2006\/03\/25\/561167.aspx\"> has been writing about the Desktop Window Manager<\/a>, how it works, how it fits into the rest of the system, all that stuff. I know some people have been posting comments asking for information about the DWM. You would be much better served asking Greg since he actually works on it, whereas all I know about the DWM is how to spell it.<\/p>\n<p> [Links fixed: 9am.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague Nick Kramer who works over on WPF has the first of what will be a series of articles on USER and GDI compatibility in Windows Vista. The changes to tighten security, improve support for East Asian languages, and take the desktop to a new level with the Desktop Window Manager (among others) make [&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-31643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>My colleague Nick Kramer who works over on WPF has the first of what will be a series of articles on USER and GDI compatibility in Windows Vista. The changes to tighten security, improve support for East Asian languages, and take the desktop to a new level with the Desktop Window Manager (among others) make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31643","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=31643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31643\/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=31643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}